Mount Ararat  is the tallest peak in Turkey. . This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the far east of Turkey close to the borders with Iran, Iraq and Armenia.

Ararat is a strato volcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta, with no volcanic crater.  Above the height of 4,200 m (13,780 ft), the mountain mostly consists of igneous rocks covered by an ice sheet.

A smaller 3,896 m (12,782 ft) cone, Little Ararat, rises from the same base, southeast of the main peak. The lava plateau stretches out between the two pinnacles. The bases of these two mountains is approximately 1,000 km² (386 sq mi) wide.

The formation of Ararat is hard to retrieve geologically, but the type of vulcanism and the position of the volcano raise the idea that subduction relation vulcanism occurred when the Tethys Ocean closed during the Neogene, as recently occurred along the borders of the Eurasian, African and Arabian plates from Cabo de Gata to the Caucasus.

 Ararat is the great prize however for mountain collectors, not only because it is the highest summit in Turkey but also for its historical significance. What has been thought by some to be the remains of Noah's Ark, most probably is a natural rock phenomenon with the shape of an enormous ship.

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