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Smoking fumaroles and our tour guide Andy at Papadayan volcano (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
Smoking fumaroles and our tour guide Andy at Papadayan volcano (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
Fields near Marcopoulo (Athens airport) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
Fields near Marcopoulo (Athens airport) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Akyarlar

Volcano
The Bodrum & Akyarlar volcanics belong to the area of the active Cos volcanic complex and are the most western volcanics of Turkey.
Volcano type lava domes dormant
Location
Summit elevation 172 m
Akyarlar volcano eruptions none in historic times
Typical eruption style Explosive
The peninsula of Bodrum and Akyarlar is dominated by old dacitic andesitic lava extrusions and lava domes. Their age is probably Pleistocene and the first eruptions took place +- 2-3 mil. years ago.
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