Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group

Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group
Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group
	Mount Shibagare, Mount Yoko, and Mount Tateshina (October 2006)
Highest point
Peak	Mount Tengu
Elevation	2,646 m (8,681 ft)
Coordinates	36°01′09″N 138°21′20″E
Naming
Etymology	Northern Mountains with eight peaks
Native name	北八ヶ岳 Kita-Yatsugatake
Geography
Country	Japan
State	Nagano Prefecture
Region	Chūbu
Districts	Kitasaku and Minamisaku District, Nagano
Municipalities	List Chino; Koumi; Minamimaki; Saku; Sakuho; Tateshina;
Parent range	Yatsugatake Mountains
Borders on	Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group
Biome	Alpine climate
Geology
Orogeny	Island arc
Age of rock	Quaternary
Type of rock	Volcanic

Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group (北八ヶ岳, Kita-Yatsugatake) is a volcanic group of stratovolcanoes and lava domes[1] located in Nagano Prefecture on Honshū in Japan.

Description

The Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group is part of the Yatsugatake Mountains. The northern group is defined as the mountains from Mount Futago to Natsuzawa Pass. The highest peak of the mountains is Mount Tengu and the elevation is 2,646 metres.

The southern Yatsugatake mountains are steep and have alpine characteristics. The mountains of the Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group are gentler and lower.

Yatsugatake is listed among the 100 famous mountains in Japan, but this refers to the Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group. Mount Tateshina is also mentioned as one of the 100 famous mountains, and it is part of the Northern Yatsugatake mountains, but is listed separately.

These mountains are part of the Yatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park.[2]

Geology and volcanic activity

The volcanoes are stratovolcanos that are 1 million to 200,000 years old. The rock is mainly basalt, dacite, and andesite. Mount Yoko has shown the most recent activity and is now considered an active volcano. It last erupted about 800 years ago.[3] In 888 a debris avalanche on the East side of the volcanic massif caused Lake Matsubara to form. The Tateshina-kogen plateau was formed by a large lava flow.[1]

List of peaks

The following peaks, from North to South, make up the Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group:[1][3]

Mount Futago, cinder cone
Mount Tateshina (Also known as Suwa Fuji.[1]), stratovolcano
Mount Yoko (Also known at Mount Kita Yoko.), lava dome
Mount Shimagare, lava dome
Mount Chausu, lava dome
Mount Maru
Nyu
Mount Naka
Mount Tengu
Mount Neishi

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References

"Kita Yatsuga-take". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
八ヶ岳中信高原国定公園. Japan Integrated Biodiversity Information System (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan. Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
"KITA YATSU-GA-TAKE (TATESHINA-YAMA, YOKO-DAKE etc.)". Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan. Geological Survey of Japan, AIST. 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-23.

Gallery

Mount Higashi-Tengu, the highest peak of the Kita-Yatsugatake Mountains
Mount Tateshina from Lake Shirakaba

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[Smithsonian-1] "Kita Yatsuga-take". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2008-08-28.

[MoEJ-2] 八ヶ岳中信高原国定公園. Japan Integrated Biodiversity Information System (in Japanese). Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan. Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-09-05.

[QVoJ-3] "KITA YATSU-GA-TAKE (TATESHINA-YAMA, YOKO-DAKE etc.)". Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan. Geological Survey of Japan, AIST. 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-23.