Mount Tendürek / Tendürek Dagi (Agri province, Turkey) - Volcano Watching on Waymarking.com

Mount Tendürek (Tendürek Dagi) is 3 584 m high shield volcano located NE of Lake Van and south of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.

Mt. Tendürek is an elongated shield volcano that rises 1800 m above the plain of Dogubayazit, near the Iranian border, south of Mount Ararat. An E-W-trending summit ridge, developed north of an arcuate caldera structure exposed only on the southern side, contains two well-developed cones. The higher western cone is capped by a steep-walled crater with a trachytic spine at its eastern edge. The flatter eastern crater contains a warm lake. The shield volcano developed during a period when highly mobile lava flows from the western crater covered an area of 500 sq km. Following summit caldera formation, numerous flank eruptions took place from N-S-trending fissures, producing viscous trachytic lava domes and flows as well as fluid basaltic pahoehoe flows that extend 10-20 km to the north and south. The latest activity formed two major basaltic lava flows from large cones on the NE and SE flanks. An eruption took place from a vent on the SE flank about 2500 years ago, and a gas-and-ash eruption took place in 1855.

[from Global Volcanism Program]

The volcano, surrounded by vast lava fields, is not easily accessible - but nice view is from the road E99 (connecting towns Van and Dogubeyazit) at coordinates N39° 21.184' E44° 00.000' (altitude 2664 m, ca 11.5 km from the main crater) where presented pictures were taken...