Fuji towers above Lake Yamanaka, one of the Fujigoko (the "Five Lakes of Fuji") that formed when lava flows blocked drainages against a Tertiary mountain range to the N. The smaller ridge at the snowline on the left is Hoeisan, a remant of Kofuji (Old Fuji), one of several older volcanoes above which the modern edifice was constructed.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1970 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Galleries: Stratovolcanoes

Keywords: stratovolcano

Fujisan