Girekol

Coordinates: 39°06′14″N 43°25′34″E / 39.104°N 43.426°E / 39.104; 43.426Girekol is a 2,145 metres (7,037 ft) high volcano in Turkey. It is an alkaline shield volcano and the youngest activity goes back to 0.36 +/- 0.06 Ma.[1] The volcano's eruption products are plagiophyric trachybasaltic lavas and is among the youngest eruption activities on the northern coast of Lake Van and overlie in part older volcanic products.[2] The volcano is part of a volcanic province together with neighbouring Meydandag and Etrüsk volcanoes that is associated with a regional geological structure named "Lake Van dome".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Girekol". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Lebedev, V. A.; Sharkov, E. V.; Keskin, M.; Oyan, V. (2010). "Geochronology of Late Cenozoic volcanism in the area of Van Lake, Turkey: An example of development dynamics for magmatic processes". Doklady Earth Sciences 433 (2): 1031–1037. doi:10.1134/S1028334X1008009X. ISSN 1028-334X.
  3. ↑ Keskin, Mehmet; Lebedev, Vladimir; Sharkov, Evgenii; Oyan, Vural; Ünal, Esin (May 2010). "A new look at the collision-related volcanism in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey: Volcanic history of the Northern-Van neovolcanic province". Geophysical Research Abstracts 12. Bibcode:2010EGUGA..1212629K.
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