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 | Mount Ararat - the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic cone, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of Armenia. The Book of Genesis identifies this mountain as the resting place of Noah's Ark after the "great flood" described there.
A smaller (3896 m) cone, Little Mount Ararat, rises just southeast of the main peak. The lav... |  | 10/27/2005 | 995 | 
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 | Lesser Ararat (Kucuk Agri) 3925 m in height twin volcano or Greater Ararat (Buyuk Agri). |  | 10/02/2005 | 920 |
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 | Mount Ararat located in Turkey. Famous for Noah's Ark. |  | 07/21/2005 | 2,951 |
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 | Tendürek Dagi, also known as Tendürük Dagi, is an elongated shield volcano that rises 1800 m above the plain of Dogubeyazit, near the Iranian border, south of Mount Ararat. An E-W-trending summit ridge, developed north of an arcuate caldera structure exposed only on the southern side, contains two well-developed cones. The higher western cone is capped by a steep-walled crater with a trachytic ... |  | 09/30/2005 | 432 |
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 | The Sierra Negra Volcano in the Galapagos Islands began erupting on October 22, 2005. In early November, it was still producing ash clouds and lava flows. In fact, Sierra Negra’s lava flow was so hot it could be seen at night—by a thermal infrared satellite sensor, that is. |  | 11/05/2005 | 375 |
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 | Overlay of Etna's activities - Rivers of lava flowing down the flanks of the volcano . |  | 10/29/2005 | 656 |
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 | Lava spews into the sea at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This island also contains Mauno Loa and Kilauea volcanoes. | | 08/30/2005 | 843 |
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 | This church is the only remaining building left from the village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, located in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. What happened? Not far from there In 1943 the Volcán de Parícutin started to rise out of a farmer's cornfield. In the following irruption, it buried 2 villages under lava and ashes, including San Juan Parangaricutiro.
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 | In Tanzania, it's the only volcano in the world to spew a white lava. | | 10/15/2005 | 584 |
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 | On June 19, 2007, Mount Nyiragongo released a plume. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the blue-tinted plume blows over Lake Kivu toward the southeast. The plume’s light color suggests that it consists primarily of water vapor. A bright, opaque white puff at the volcano’s summit could be part of the... | | 08/29/2007 | 206 |
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 | This range is the third most important glacial region in Turkey following the Mount Ararat and Cilo-Sat Mountains. | | 10/01/2005 | 446 |
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 | Located about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Mexico City.The last major eruption of Popocatepetl (pronounced poh-poh-kah-TEH-peh-til) occurred in 800 A.D., in which vast amounts of lava and ash from the volcano completely filled many of the surrounding valleys. Since then, there have been at least five moderate eruptions, two of which occurred in the 1900s. Toward the end of 2000, scientists war... | | 10/30/2005 | 1,217 |
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