Mount Elbrus, located in SW Russia.
A volcano of the Caucasus.
Last eruption dated as 50 AD via tephrochronology.
"It has the regular outline of a typical volcano. Its
characteristic peculiarity is that it culminates in two comparatively small
cones of nearly equal height, separated by a gap some 1500 feet in depth,
and 17,000 feet above the sea-level. Each of these cones preserves the features
of a crater in a horseshoe ridge, broken down on one side and enclosing
a snow-filled basin. It has been suggested that the two may have formed
part of a huge terminal crater, and when the mountain is viewed from the
south-east this idea seems plausible; but Mr. Freshfield is unable to agree
with it. In any case, however, Elbruz may be reckoned among those which
retain relics of their craters. The rocks appear to be largely lavas, and
that of the western summit is a hornblende andesite, which I believe is
also dominant on the mountain." - T.G. Bonney (1899)
The stamp below issued by Canada as part of 2002, Year of
the Mountain.
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