Mount Fuji 台紙富士

By:Dominique

Location 位置

• Mount Fuji is located on Honshu in Japan

Appearance 出現

• Mount Fuji is 3776 meters tall• The peak is capped with snow year-round• Mount Fuji is a cone • There are shrines on the top of Mount Fuji• In April the gorgeous cherry blossoms are in

bloom• During May the Azaleas will be out

Formation 形成

• Mount Fuji was formed by eruptions• Mount Fuji has four major phases (eruptions) in

its volcanic history:1.Sen-komitake: the igneous rock core consisting

of andesite, which was the first eruption2.Komitake Fuji: the layer of basalt after sen-

komitake (several hundred thousand years ago)3.Old Fuji: formed over the basalt of komitake Fuji

about one hundred thousand years ago 4.New Fuji formed over Old Fuji about ten

thousand years ago

Geology 地質学

• Mount Fuji is a composite volcano• It produces 10,000 km3 every 100,000 years• A tear in the Philippines Sea Plate allows

magma to surface underneath Mount Fuji • Mount Fuji is dormant• Mount Fuji releases lava and

pyroclastic material

Rocks 石

• Mount Fuji mostly consists of basalt

• Basalt is fine-grained and igneous

• The inner core/cone of Mount Fuji is made of andesite

• Andesite is a fine-grained igneous rock

Mineral Composition ミネラル構成

• Basalt consists of the minerals:

• Pyroxene, olivine, feldspar, and quartz

• Andesite mineral composition includes:• Plagioclase, feldspar, potassium, and sometimes

olivine, biotite, or amphibole

Fun Facts! 楽しみ事実

• Strato-volcanoes are the steepest and tallest type of volcano

• Mount Fuji is part of the Ring of Fire• Mount Fuji is almost perfectly symmetrical• Mount Fuji means “everlasting life”• Mount Fuji can be seen from Tokyo

On a clear day • A bump on the northern slope of Fuji

is actually the summit crater of

Komitake

Sources 源

• http://www.japaneseguesthouses.com/db/fuji/images/mount_fuji.jpg• http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translat

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Fuji,_Japan.html• http://jove.geol.niu.edu/students/mdare/VirtualFieldTrip/Mt_Fuji/Mou

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n_trenchs.jpg

Sources Continued 源は続いた

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Sources Continued 源は続いた

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s/Olivine.jpg• http://csm.jmu.edu/photos/Geology/Minerals/Quartz%20(Japan%20

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volcano.jpg

Sources Continued 源は続いた

• http://www.haussonnenschein.com/images/mount_fuji/mount_fuji14.jpg

• http://whyfiles.org/094quake/images/ring_of_fire.gif• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skyscrapers_of_Shinjuku_2009_Jan

uary.jpg• http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0208/feature3/• http://jove.geol.niu.edu/students/mdare/VirtualFieldTrip/Mt_Fuji/

ActualTriptoJapan.html• http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/GALPOD/5805-

6843~Cherry-Blossoms-and-Mt-Fuji-Posters.jpg• http://geology.csupomona.edu/alert/igneous/andesite.htm• http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/fuji.jpg

Thank you ありがとう

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