Saturday, February 25, 2017

Lebanon's Surrpunding Country and Volcanoes

     When I was in elementary school I became fascinated with history and book portraying the natural events in the past that had occurred in times of B.C. One of the events that always came up on these books was that of volcanic activity and it's aftermaths. One of the things I'll be discussing today is Volcanoes. Since my country is Lebanon and I could not find any information stating volcanic activity in Lebanon or any active/dormant volcanoes, I would like to emphasize the relation to volcanoes of another country near mine. This country is Turkey and it is one country apart from Lebanon (as noticed in the picture below)
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     Volcanoes are, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “…a vent in the crust of the earth or another planet or a moon from which usually molten or hot rock and steam issue”. The hazard level for Lebanon in regards to volcanoes and volcanic activity is “very low”. This information derived from www.ThinkHazard.org defines very low when "...no eruption has been reported in the area".  In contrast to Lebanon's very low volcanic impact, turkey on the other has has a list of volcanic mountains (Listed by regions below). (https://volcanicmountainsinturkey.wordpress.com/)
Marmara Region: Uludağ
Southeastern Anatolia Region: Karacadağ
The Black Sea Region: Köroğlu Mountains
Mediterranean Region: Hassa Region (Hatay)
Aegean Region: Kula Dunes (the youngest)
Eastern Anatolia Region: Ağrı, Tendürek, Nemrut, Süphan Mountain
The Central Anatolia Region: Erciyes, Melendiz, Hasandağ.

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Tendürek Mountain
      Among all these, Turkey is the onlyvolcano that is currently active. "Tendürek in the south of Mount Ararat Mountain, Turkey is the only active volcanic mountain. 3584 meters high. And about 500 meters wide at the top of the mountain, there is a crater, and the crater with a variety of hot gases are water vapor. Ağrı is considered an active volcano in the country within the borders of a single Tendürek volcano. Approximately five hundred meters to the east of the mountain, and the diameter of the crater, which comes hot water vapors and hydrogen sulfide gases. These gases are the edges of the crater, the yellow color of sulfur, which leads to formation of a mineral. Temperature of the hot water steams volcano erupted about 60 degrees".

       One of the things that I most found fascinating about this country when conducting my research was HOW MANY volcanoes it has. It shocked me to find that only one was active. I was surprised by all the articles and information found on this country regarding the volcanoes.



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  1. Ana GGFebruary 26, 2017 at 2:35 PM

    Great research. I am happy you thought outside the box and gave us info about a neighbor country..
    FYI., as you say, no current active volcano is located in Lebanon but in the past, this country did have interesting activity....read below..
    Although there is no current volcanic activity in Lebanon, there has been in the last ten million years volcanic activity in the extreme north of Lebanon and in the extremely southeast of Lebanon. In the north, this volcanism erupted the Homs Basalts about 6 million years ago. Because of its age and changes in regional tectonics, the volcanoes that produced the Homs Basalts are clearly extinct and do not pose any credible risk of eruption.

    In the southeast, Late Cenozoic volcanism occurred within the Golan Heights and Jebal Druze volcanic fields in nearby Syria. The Jebal ad Druze volcanic field consists of a group of 118 basaltic volcanoes that erupted from the lower-Pleistocene to the Holocene. The Golan Heights volcanic field contains numerous cinder cones of Pliocene-to-Holocene age. Although they lie within Syria, volcanics erupted from both volcanic fields covered parts of southeast Lebanon. Given that these volcanic fields apparently last erupted about ten thousand years ago or less, there exists a possibility that they might erupt again at some unknown time in the future and impact southeastern Lebanon.

    There also has been numerous volcanic eruptions within the Lebanon during the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods. Because these eruptions occurred so long ago and under tectonic conditions that disappeared long ago that they will not erupt again and pose no threat to Lebanon.


    The Jebal ad Druze volcanic field - http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0300-06-
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal_al-Druze , and http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=0300

    Golan Heights volcanic field - http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0300-03-
    http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=0300

    Chorowicz, J., D. Dhont, O. Ammar, M. Rukieh, and A. Bilal, 2005,
    Tectonics of the Pliocene Homs basalts (Syria) and implications
    for the Dead Sea Fault Zone activity. Journal of the Geological
    Society, vol. 162, no. 2, pp. 259-271; DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-037
    http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/162/2/259
    http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/geology/geology-of-lebanon/

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