Karasu Rift

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Turkiye, Arabia-Central Asia Volcanic Regions

Kde

Turkiye, Arabia-Central Asia Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

486 m

Poloha

36,767°, 36,600°

The Quaternary basalts of the Karasu Rift form a belt covering an area 94 km long and 12-25 km wide (as revealed by boreholes) between Fevzipasa and north of Revhanli in the northern section of the rift (Rojay et al., 2001). Located near the far NE corner of the Mediterranean Sea, some of the lava field extends into Syria. One especially dark fresh-looking area of lava flows just east of the city of Hassa covers an area of about 140 km2 over a N-S distance of 20 km, and includes the low Küçükak Tepesi crater. Those flows almost surrounded the older lavas of Büyükak Tepe. K-Ar dating by Rojay et al. (2001) on new samples showed five periods of volcanism between 1.6 and 0.05 Ma.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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