Cave on Little Ararat?

Cave.kmz (708 B)


On the side of the Little Ararat mountain, there is a large cave visible.  It was not easily seen in old imagery because of clouds and snow/ice... I think.

I'm not a geologist, but here are my thoughts about this:

Little Ararat = volcano. Volcanoes contains lots of lava rock and lava rock is black. Caves = result of flowing water eroding away softer rocks. I just can't see cave making erosion on the side of a volcanic mountain peak, unless you believe some thousands of years old stories are true. People have been crawling over Ararat for hundreds of years now looking for evidence of flooding/remnants of that boat thing, so they would have found that cave.

If there is a cave there, then it must be a lava tube, but probably not. It's just circular looking black thing made out of lava (a vent?)

Dec 22, 2016 11:08:27 GMT smask said:

I'm not a geologist, but here are my thoughts about this:

Little Ararat = volcano. Volcanoes contains lots of lava rock and lava rock is black. Caves = result of flowing water eroding away softer rocks. I just can't see cave making erosion on the side of a volcanic mountain peak, unless you believe some thousands of years old stories are true. People have been crawling over Ararat for hundreds of years now looking for evidence of flooding/remnants of that boat thing, so they would have found that cave.

If there is a cave there, then it must be a lava tube, but probably not. It's just circular looking black thing made out of lava (a vent?)

Either a lava tube or a play of clouds and shadows, that looks like a cave.




Little Ararat is on the otherside of Mount Ararat.

Little Ararat.kmz (701 B)