is a Japanese
volcanic peak in the area south-east of
Mount Fuji
, or Fugaku, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, with a summit elevation of . It is the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest p ...
. Its summit, 1,504 meters high, is located in the
Susono City, Shizuoka. It is the highest peak of the
Mount Ashitaka
is an eroded stratovolcano in the area south-east of Mount Fuji, Japan. Its highest peak, high,Karátson, D "Erosion calderas: origins, processes, structural and climatic control,"''Bulletin of Volcanology'' Vol. 61 (1999), pp. 179 DF 6 of ...
lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularly in convergent plate boundary settings. Around 6% of eruptions on ...
.
History
* Mount Echizen-dake erupted in the mid-
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...
epoch, about 100,000 years ago. It is an
extinct volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...
.
[Shizuoka Guide]
"Overview of Mt Fuji
retrieved 2012-6-21.
* Echizen-dake was depicted on the 50-yen banknote of the 1938 issue.
Gallery
Mount Fuji from Mount Echizen.jpg, Mount Fuji
, or Fugaku, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, with a summit elevation of . It is the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest p ...
from the peak
Fuji city from Ashitaka Mountains.jpg, Fuji City from the peak
See also
*
List of volcanoes in Japan
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Japan. An Orange background indicates a volcano considered active by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Hokkaido
Honshū
Izu Islands
Ogasawara Archipelago
The Ogasawara Archipelag ...
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List of mountains in Japan
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height.
Mountains over 1000 meters
Mountains under 1000 meters
As the generally accepted definition of a mountain (versus a hill) is 1000 m of height and 500 m of prom ...
References
The page incorporated material from Japanese Wikipedia page
越前岳, accessed 23 April 2019
External links
Mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture
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