Tendürek ( tr, Tendürek Dağı, hy, Թոնդրակ, Tondrak) is a

shield volcano A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more vi ...

located in the

Ağrı Ağrı ( ku, Agirî; ) is the capital of Ağrı Province in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. Formerly known as Karaköse ( ku, Qerekose) from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise ( ota, قره‌� ...

and

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provinces of eastern

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

, close to the borders with

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. The elongated volcano rises above the Doğubeyazıt plain, south of

Mount Ararat Mount Ararat or , ''Ararat''; or is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and th ...

. Two main cones with a crater each and several minor lateral cones form the edifice. The edifice dates 700,000–500,000 years BP to 13,000 BP and is mostly constructed from basaltic lavas, with some pyroclastics and trachytic/trachyandesitic lavas. It has a volume of more than 300 km³ and covers a surface area of about 650 km². Pyroclastic cones with basaltic lava flows on the eastern side of the mountain are around 2,500 years old. The last known eruption may have been a gas and ash eruption in 1855, and hydrothermal systems exist on the volcano. Since 1993, the volcano has been subsiding in a ring fault. The Armenian name for the mountain was Tondrak. The medieval

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''O ...

Tondrakians Tondrakians ( hy, Թոնդրակեաններ) were members of an anti-feudal, heretical Christian sect that flourished in medieval Armenia between the early 9th century and 11th century and centered on the district of Tondrak, north of Lake Va ...

, a religious movement of the 950s, is named after this area.

Significance

The Structure Claimed to be the Noah's Ark near the Mount Ararat in Turkey

The volcano is known for having the

Durupınar site The Durupınar site ( tr, Durupınar sitesi) is geological formartion of made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, adjacent to the village of Üzengili in Eastern Anatolia Region, eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is north of the Iranian border, ...

. Due to its size and ship-like shape, this big

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structure is considered by some to be

Noah's Ark Noah's Ark ( he, תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: ''Tevat Noaḥ'')The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English ''aerca'', meaning a chest or box. (See Cresswell 2010, p.22) The Hebrew word for the vessel, ''teva'', occurs twice in ...

, but this is disputed.

References

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An active ring fault detected at Tendürek volcano by using InSAR
Journal of Geophysical Research.
Geology of the quaternary volcanic centres of the east Anatolia
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. * ''Annäherung an Armenien: Geschichte und Gegenwart'', Tessa Hofmann, Tessa Savvidis. Mountains of Turkey Volcanoes of Turkey Polygenetic shield volcanoes Landforms of Ağrı Province Landforms of Van Province Mountains of the Armenian Highlands Three-thousanders of Turkey {{EAnatolia-geo-stub

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