Girekol

Coordinates: 39°06′14″N 43°25′34″E / 39.104°N 43.426°EGirekol is a 2,145-metre-high (7,037 ft) volcano in Turkey. It is an alkaline shield volcano and the youngest activity goes back to 0.36 +/- 0.06 Ma.^[1] The volcano's eruption products are plagiophyric trachybasaltic lavas and is among the youngest eruption activities on the northern coast of Lake Van and overlie in part older volcanic products.^[2] The volcano is part of a volcanic province together with neighbouring Meydandag and Etrüsk volcanoes that is associated with a regional geological structure named "Lake Van dome".^[3]

References

1. "Girekol". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
2. Lebedev, V. A.; Sharkov, E. V.; Keskin, M.; Oyan, V. (2010). "Geochronology of Late Cenozoic volcanism in the area of Van Lake, Turkey: An example of development dynamics for magmatic processes". Doklady Earth Sciences 433 (2): 1031–1037. doi:10.1134/S1028334X1008009X. ISSN 1028-334X.
3. Keskin, Mehmet; Lebedev, Vladimir; Sharkov, Evgenii; Oyan, Vural; Ünal, Esin (May 2010). "A new look at the collision-related volcanism in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey: Volcanic history of the Northern-Van neovolcanic province". Geophysical Research Abstracts 12. Bibcode:2010EGUGA..1212629K.