Sabalan

Sabalan
	Sabalan
height	4811 m
location	Province Ardabil in Iran
Dominance	344 km → Ararat
Notch height	3283 m
Coordinates	38 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 47 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 38 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 47 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E
Type	Stratovolcano
rock	Andesite
Age of the rock	Messinian to Pleistocene
Last eruption	in the Holocene
	Sabalan crater lake

The Sabalan ( Persian سبلانEven Savalan on Azerbaijani ) is a likely no longer active stratovolcano in Iran .

Location and surroundings

The Sabalan is located in the northwest of Iran, in the Ardabil province . To the south, the mountain is in the Sarab County in the East Azerbaijan Province . It is the third highest mountain (4811 m) and after the Damavand the second highest volcano in the country. The higher region is used as a winter sports area, the mountain itself is a popular destination for climbers and hikers. There is also a medicinal bath near the mountain.

geology

The andesite rock of the Sabalan is 1.4 to 5.6 million years old. The summit region has several high points, the highest of which is 4811 m in the northeast. A crater lake has formed at the summit, which, apart from occasional exceptions, is covered with ice all year round at the end of July and beginning of August. At an altitude of over 4,000 m, the cold climate is sufficient to maintain a total of seven glaciers, some of which are or merge into rock glaciers .

history

The last eruption of the volcano was less than 10,000 years ago and thus dates from the Holocene . The Urartian rock inscription of Nascht-e ban comes from the time of Argišti II.

Individual evidence

↑ Jane G. Ferrigno: Glaciers of Iran. In: Richard S. Williams, Jr., Jane G. Ferrigno (Eds.): Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. G: Glaciers of the Middle East and Africa (= US Geological Survey. Professional Paper. 1386-G, ISSN 0096-0446 ). Version 1.0. US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1991, pp. 37-38, online (PDF; 1.3 MB) .
↑ Sabalan in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
^ Warren C. Benedict: Two Urartian Inscriptions from Azerbaijan. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies . Vol. 19, No. 2, 1965, pp. 35-40, doi : 10.2307 / 1359603 .

Web links

Commons : Sabalan - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sabalan . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
Sabalan at Peakware (English)

[1] Jane G. Ferrigno: Glaciers of Iran. In: Richard S. Williams, Jr., Jane G. Ferrigno (Eds.): Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. G: Glaciers of the Middle East and Africa (= US Geological Survey. Professional Paper. 1386-G, ISSN 0096-0446 ). Version 1.0. US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1991, pp. 37-38, online (PDF; 1.3 MB) .

[2] Sabalan in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)

[3] Warren C. Benedict: Two Urartian Inscriptions from Azerbaijan. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies . Vol. 19, No. 2, 1965, pp. 35-40, doi : 10.2307 / 1359603 .