Takahara volcano, Japan
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Takahara volcano, Japan
Forested Fuji-san lava dome, one of many conical volcanoes named after Japan's renowned Mount Fuji, is the youngest product of Takahara volcano.
This small stratovolcano with associated lava domes is located SW of Nasu volcano.
The latest dated eruption of Takahara took place about 6500 years ago.
Eruptions along a NW-SE-trending fissure produced phreatic tephra and were followed by emplacement of the Fuji-san lava dome and a cryptodome (an area of lava intrusion where lava did not reach the surface) on the NW side of the dome.
Takahara is a small stratovolcano with lava domes located SW of Nasu volcano and NNW of Utsunomiya city in central Honshu.
The basaltic-to-dacitic volcano lies within the Shiobara caldera, which was formed during the late Pleistocene at the time of the eruption of the Otawara pumice-flow deposit.
The latest dated eruption of Takahara took place about 6500 years ago along the NW-SE-trending Yumoto-Shiobara fissure system within the caldera.
Eruptions along this fissure initially produced the phreatic Takahara-Uenohara tephra deposit, which was distributed primarily to the east.
The symmetrical Fuji-san lava dome, one of many conical volcanoes named after Japan's renowned Mount Fuji, was extruded at the end of the eruption.
PHOTO SOURCE: Photo by Ichio Moriya (Kanazawa University), courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Global Volcanism Program, used with permission.
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