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Fig. 13 | Geoenvironmental Disasters

Fig. 13

From: “Volcanism in the Chugoku region: a review for the first UNESCO field school on Geoenvironmental disaster reduction”

Fig. 13

Mt Daisen is the largest stratovolcano in the SW-Japan arc. The snow-capped summit in the foreground is build up of several lava domes, which have been the source of a large number of block and ash flows, their deposits now found in the pyroclastic apron of the young complex. The sub-circular structure in the foreground is a lava blister, belonging to the basaltic lava flows of Daikonjima island, a contemporary monogenetic volcano of the young arc

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