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Mount Iwate

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Prominence
  
1,745 m (5,725 ft)

Last eruption
  
1919

Mountain type
  
Stratovolcano complex

Elevation
  
2,038 m

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Location
  
Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Similar
  
Mount Hayachine, Mount Akita‑Komagatake, Mount Iwaki, Mt Himekami, Mount Chōkai

Mount Iwate (岩手山, Iwate-san) is a stratovolcano complex located northwest of the city of Morioka in western Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan. The mountain is listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains in a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer/author Kyūya Fukada.

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Map of Mount Iwate, (Other), Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture 028-7100, Japan

Mount iwate in japan as seen from a helicopter


Geology

Mount Iwate consists of a younger eastern symmetrical stratovolcano (Higashi-Iwate, "East Iwate") overlapping an older western stratovolcano (Nishi-Iwate, "West Iwate") which has collapsed to form a caldera.

The oval-shaped, 1.8 x 3 km caldera has a central cone containing a 0.5 km wide crater, partially filled by a crater lake.

References

Mount Iwate Wikipedia