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Volcanoes of Georgia (6)

Georgia is located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.
Geologically, Georgia is located near the collision zone between the Eurasian, Arabic, and Anatolian tectonic plates.

Dzau | Kabargin Oth | Kasbek | Keli Highland | unnamed | unnamed
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Dzau

(Fissure vent 1904 m / 6247 ft)
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Kabargin Oth

(cinder cones 3650 m / 11,975 ft)
Kabargin Oth volcano is a group of andesitic to dacitic cinder cones and lava domes in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia near the border with Russia. [more info]

Kasbek

(stratovolcano 5050 m / 16,568 ft)
2002 NASA Space Shuttle image of Kasbek volcano. It marks the path of an avalanche and debris flow produced by collapse of a glacier the following month. (image courtesy: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2002)
2002 NASA Space Shuttle image of Kasbek volcano. It marks the path of an avalanche and debris flow produced by collapse of a glacier the following month. (image courtesy: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2002)
Kasbek volcano (also written as Kazbek volcano) is a large glacier-covered stratovolcano in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia south of the border with Russia. It is the second highest volcano (after Elbrus) in the Caucasus range. There are no known historic eruptions, but radioca... [more info]

Keli Highland

(Pyroclastic cone(s) 3750 m / 12303 ft)
[more info]

unnamed

(cinder cones 3750 m / 12,303 ft)
An unnamed group of 5 andesitic-to-dacitic cinder cones and associated lava flows is located in northern Georgia 20 km from the Russian border and 35 km NE of the town of Tskhinvali. [more info]

unnamed

(lava cones 3400 m / 11,155 ft )
An unnamed group of 7 young volcanic cones is located in the Obul-Samarask upland of southern Georgia, SW of the capital city of Tbilisi, near the borders with Turkey and Armenia. The cones are early Pleistocene to Holocene in age and many of the craters have a well-preserved mor... [more info]
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