Mt. Nemrud Caldera

Abstract

Mt. Nemrut is the southernmost and youngest of the chain of volcanoes in eastern Anatolia. It is a stratovolcano (a composite volcano that is tall conical and composed of many layers of hardened lava tephra and volcanic ash) and began erupting during the quaternary and continued to be active until 1597 AD (Aydar et al. 2003).(It should not be confused with the other Nemrut Mountain (Commagene) an archaeological site in southern Turkey which is now famous for its large carved stone heads). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.