Mount Iwate

Mount Iwate
岩手山
Mount Iwate from the city of Morioka
Elevation	2,041 m (6,696 ft)
Listing	List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan
Location
Mount Iwate Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates	39°50′59″N 141°0′16″E / 39.84972°N 141.00444°E / 39.84972; 141.00444Coordinates: 39°50′59″N 141°0′16″E / 39.84972°N 141.00444°E / 39.84972; 141.00444
Geology
Type	Stratovolcano complex
Last eruption	1919

Mount Iwate (岩手山, Iwate-san^?) is a stratovolcano complex located northwest of the city of Morioka in western Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan. The mountain is listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains in a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer/author Kyūya Fukada.^[1]

Geology

Mount Iwate consists of a younger eastern symmetrical stratovolcano (Higashi-Iwate, "East Iwate") overlapping an older western stratovolcano (Nishi-Iwate, "West Iwate") which has collapsed to form a caldera.^[2] The oval-shaped, 1.8 x 3 km caldera has a central cone containing a 0.5 km wide crater, partially filled by a crater lake.

References

1. ^ Hyakumeizan, Hiking Japan!
2. ^ "Iwate". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0803-24=. 

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