Mount Sahand
mountain, Iran
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- In Iran: Volcanic and tectonic activity
… (15,787 feet [4,812 meters]) and Mount Sahand (12,172 feet [3,710 meters]) in the northwest. The Sahand-Bazman Belt, formed by Eocene volcanism, extends some 1,200 miles (1,900 km) from the border with Azerbaijan in the northwest to Baluchistan in the southeast and includes volcanic peaks such as Mount Sahand, Mount Karkas…
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