Mount Iwate

Mount Iwate
Mount Iwate
岩手山

Mount Iwate from the city of Morioka
Elevation 2,041 m (6,696 ft)
Listing List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
List of volcanoes in Japan
Location
Mount Iwate is located in Japan
Mount Iwate
Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates 39°50′59″N 141°0′16″E / 39.84972°N 141.00444°E / 39.84972; 141.00444Coordinates: 39°50′59″N 141°0′16″E / 39.84972°N 141.00444°E / 39.84972; 141.00444
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]

Geology

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.

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