... The mountain has been perceived as the traditional resting place of Noah's Ark and is also the main national symbol of Armenia. The first recorded ascent was performed in 1859 by Friedrich Parrot and Khachatur Abovian (Parrot, 1859). ...
... The ice cap is well known since medieval times (Berlitz, 1987), but preliminary descriptions on glaciers and glaciation were only published in the 1850s (Abich, 1847;Parrot, 1859). In the 1950s, Imhof (1956) and Blumenthal (1958) published quite detailed descriptions of the volcano; in spite of this general interest, few geological studies have since been undertaken (Karakhanian et al., 2002;Notsu, Fujitani, Ui, Matsuda, & Ercan, 1995;Simkin & Siebert, 1994;Yilmaz, Güner, & Saroğlu, 1998). ...
This paper presents a geomorphological map of Mount Ararat/Agri Dagi in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey). Mount Ararat/Agri Dagi is a volcanic complex covered by a unique ice cap in the Near East. The massif is the result of multiple volcanic phases, and present day landforms are the result of subsequent and overlapping glacial, periglacial, and slope processes. The geomorphological mapping of Mount Ararat/Agri Dagi was firstly performed on the basis of desktop studies, by applying remote-sensing investigations using high-resolution satellite imagery (PLEIADES and SPOT images). A preliminary draft of the map was crosschecked and validated in the field as part of an interdisciplinary campaign carried out in the 2014 summer season. All the collected data suggest that the Mount Ararat/Agri Dagi glaciation played a crucial role in the evolution of the landscape and that even today glaciers are significant features in this area. Currently, ice bodies cover 7.28 km2 and include peculiar glacier types. Among th...
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