Koh-i-Sultan
Sign in to savethumb|right|330px|While most of Pakistan is located on the Indian Plate, Koh-i-Sultan is situated on the Eurasian Plate Koh-i-Sultan is a volcano in Balochistan, Pakistan. It is part of the tectonic belt formed by the collision of the Eurasian Plate and Arabian Plate: specifically, a segment influenced by the subduction of the Arabian plate beneath the Asian plate and forming a volcanic arc which includes the Bazman and Taftan volcanoes in Iran. The volcano consists of three main cones, with heavily eroded craters running west-northwest and surrounded by a number of subsidiary volcanic centres
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Landforms of Balochistan (Pakistan), Miocene stratovolcanoes and Mountains of Balochistan (Pakistan).
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|right|330px|While most of Pakistan is located on the Indian Plate, Koh-i-Sultan is situated on the Eurasian Plate Koh-i-Sultan is a volcano in Balochistan, Pakistan. It is part of the tectonic belt formed by the collision of the Eurasian Plate and Arabian Plate: specifically, a segment influenced by the subduction of the Arabian plate beneath the Asian plate and forming a volcanic arc which includes the Bazman and Taftan volcanoes in Iran. The volcano consists of three main cones, with heavily eroded craters running west-northwest and surrounded by a number of subsidiary volcanic centres. Its summit is high, and the crater associated with the Miri cone has a smaller crater inside.
The volcano is formed by andesite and dacite rocks, with fragmentary rocks prevailing over lava flows. The rocks have typical arc-volcano chemistry and composition, with a progression from andesite to dacite in the eruption products with younger age. Potassium-argon dating has indicated an age range from 5,900,000 to 90,000 years. Subsequent erosion has generated a large debris apron around the base of the volcano and carved rock formations which impressed early explorers; one well-known rock formation is the staff-like Neza e Sultan (trans. "Sultan's Spear").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koh-i-Sultan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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