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AS we descended from the central mountains of Armenia towards the south along the road from Akstafa to Erivan, we suddenly came upon a beautiful sheet of water lying glassy and restful in the lap of the mountains. Those on the left, sloped down to its shore with every diversity of valley, creek and headland, and with gently moulded outlines which told of subaerial waste, and gave the impression of a mountain land the base of which the waters had but recently begun to bathe. From the heights on which we stood the lake seemed to follow a somewhat narrow sinuous course, which suggested the idea that we were looking on a dammed-up valley. But it could not be the submerged end of a long valley invaded by the sea, for we were still between 6000 and 7000 feet above sea-level. On the right, beyond the lake, conical hills, often nicked at the summit, with long ridges radiating from them, rose in strong contrast to the more ancient rocks of the northern slopes, and suggested plainly by their geographical outline a volcanic region which had been so recently active that there had not yet been time for its distinctive features to have been obliterated.
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HUGHES, T. Notes on Some Volcanic Phenomena in Armenia. Nature 57, 392–394 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057392a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057392a0