Volcanoes of Turkey - Information

Volcano list

Acigöl-Nevsehir

(caldera, lava domes 1689 m)

Google Earth View image of the caldera of Acigöl-Nevsehir

The big caldera of Acigöl-Nevsehir is located in central Turkey and has a size of 7-8 km diameter. [more]

Akyarlar

(lava domes 172 m)

Volcanic cones and domes of Akyarlar volcanic field on the Bodrum peninsula of southwestern Turkey seen from Kos Island, Greece.

The Bodrum & Akyarlar volcanics belong to the area of the active Cos volcanic complex and are the most western volcanics of Turkey. [more]

Ararat

(stratovolcano 5165 m)

The 5165-m-high, double-peaked stratovolcano Mount Ararat, also known as Agri Dagi, is Turkey's highest, largest volume, and easternmost volcano. [more]

Erciyes Dagi

(stratovolcano 3916 m)

Erciyes Dağ or Erciyes Dagi volcano is a massive, eroded stratovolcano that dominates the northern end of the Sultansazligi Basin in central Anatolia. It covers an area of about 1300 sq km. [more]

Girekol

(stratovolcano 2323 m)

A huge volcano north of Van lake with a great eruption crater towards south-east. [more]

Göllü Dağ

(stratovolcano 2143 m)

Göllü Dağ, a 2143-m-high rhyolitic-to-rhyodacitic lava dome complex in central Anatolia, lies between the Hasan Dağ and Acigöl-Nevsehir volcanic complexes. [more]

Hasan Dagi

(stratovolcano 3253 m)

The Hasan Dagi is a huge stratovolcano on which caldera collapses took place in ca. 7500-7600 years ago. [more]

The huge Karaca Dağ volcano is a 1957 m high basaltic shield volcano in SE-Turkey near the Syrian border. It is situated on the Arabian foreland and about 150 km of the boundary of the Anatolian plate. It has been active since the Pliocene and also in historic times eruptions occ... [more]

Karadağ

(stratovolcano, lava domes 2265 m)

A huge volcanic complex near the village Madenşehri with a huge crater. [more]

Karapinar

(cinder cones, maar 1086 m)

The Karapinar volcanic field is one of the most interesting areas in south-western Turkey. [more]

Karasu Rift

(Volcanic field 486 m / 1594 ft)

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Kargapazari Dagi

(Unknown 2089 m / 6854 ft)

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Kars

(stratovolcano ca. 3000 m)

The Kars Plateau is a broad calc-alkaline to alkaline volcanic field of largely Pliocene to mid-Pleistocene age in the NE corner of Turkey (Innocenti et al., 1982; Yilmaz, 1990). [more]

Kenger

(cinder cone 745 m)

The Kenger volcano belongs to the fault system that created also the Kula cinder cones in western Turkey. [more]

Kisir Dagi

(Unknown 3192 m / 10472 ft)

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Koruhüyüğü

(cinder cones 433 m)

A serial of cinder cones in the "graben" structure in the area north of Kirikhan town in Turkey. [more]

Kula

(cinder cones, maars 740 m)

The Kula volcanic field in western Turkey near the city Selendi had the last eruptions probably more than 10.000 years ago. [more]

Nemrut Dagi

(caldera 2948 m)

The summit of Nemrut Dagi is truncated by a 5 x 9 km caldera near Lake Van in eastern Turkey. A lake that partially fills the western side of the caldera is constrained by post-caldera eruptions that produced glassy obsidian lava flows from domes on the eastern caldera floor. A series of scoria cones and lava domes were erupted along N-S-trending fissures on the northern flank. Ash layers in Lake Van document numerous Holocene eruptions from Nemrut Dagi. (Image: NASA International Space Station image ISS001-E-6354, 2001, http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

Nemrut Dağ (or Nemrut Dagi) volcano is the westernmost of a group of volcanoes near Lake Van in eastern Anatolia, and the only one that has erupted in historical time. It contains a 9 x 5 km caldera partially filled on its western side by a caldera lake. [more]