Contact | subscribe report news || Français | Deutsch
edit translation
|share

Girekol volcano

stratovolcano 2323 m
Turkey, 39.2°N / 43.18°E
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5)
Typical eruption style: Explosive
Girekol volcano eruptions: none in historic times
A huge volcano north of Van lake with a great eruption crater towards south-east.

Background:

Girekol is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene calc-alkaline to alkaline volcanic center located directly north of the NE arm of Lake Van in eastern Anatolia (Yilmaz, 1990).