| Mount Iwate | |
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| 岩手山 | |
Mount Iwate from the city of Morioka |
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| Elevation | 2,041 m (6,696 ft) |
| Listing | List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan |
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Mount Iwate
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| Geology | |
| Type | Stratovolcano complex |
| Last eruption | 1919 |
Mount Iwate (岩手山 Iwate-san) is a stratovolcano complex located northwest of the city of Morioka in western Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan. The mountain is listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains in a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer/author Kyūya Fukada.[1]
Mount Iwate consists of a younger eastern symmetrical stratovolcano (Higashi-Iwate, "East Iwate") overlapping an older western stratovolcano (Nishi-Iwate, "West Iwate") which has collapsed to form a caldera.[2] The oval-shaped, 1.8 x 3 km caldera has a central cone containing a 0.5 km wide crater, partially filled by a crater lake.