REVIVED VOLCANOES
Mount El'burz, the Caucasian peak that towers 2700 feet higher than Mont Blanc, has been puzzling the world by bursting into activity after a lapse of untold, ages. Eiburz is surmounted by two volcanic craters, connected by a saddle or ridge. Near the base of the great dome which supports "'this arts traces of a- long extinct ©cue surrounded -by lava; the remain,? of a crater that burned itself out in some remote geologic ,age, before the glacial period arrived. There are other instances of a volcanic mountain enjoying a "ye- ! oond innings." Vesuvius, for in- | stance, stands on. the long extinct crater of Monte Sbmma, and ether i examples are the Peak of Teneriffe and Barren Island mi the Bjy of Bengal. Mount Shasta, in Northern California, after having lain buried under vast fields of ice, again renewed . its activities. Tlxere are somewhat similar instances in Scotland', where extinct craters .have b»eni built up om the ruins of others whose age can be reckoned only in I geological periods.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13937, 16 July 1919, Page 4
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172REVIVED VOLCANOES Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13937, 16 July 1919, Page 4
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