Vaiyots-Sar Volcano

Updated: 16 mayo 2024 16:05 GMT - refresh

cinder cones 3329 m
Armenia, 39.8°N / 45.5°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)

Vaiyots-Sar is a young cinder cone in a group of six cinder and lava cones of Pleistocene-to-Holocene age located in the western Vardenis Volcanic Highland south of Lake Sevan in southern Armenia. It likely formed in postglacial times.
Vaiyots-Sar volcano is also known under its Russian-origin names of Dar-Alages or Daly-Tapa.

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Typical eruption style: explosive
Erupciones del volcán Vaiyots-Sar: none in historic times (?)

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Background

Vaiyots-Sar volcano lies just north of the major Areni-Zanghezour Fault, near the town of Vaik, and produced a fissure-fed lava flow several thousand years ago that dammed the Arpah River and flowed to the west for 6 km. The flows overlie a late Pleistocene terrace and have little soil development.
The youthful-looking Smbatassar cinder cone is located 17 km to the NW and produced lava flows that traveled 11 and 17 km north and south, respectively.
Oswald (1906) noted that steep escarpments of Nummulitic limestones faced the “Dalykh-tapa” volcano, about 6 km NE across an extensive lava-flow field.