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Mount Kirishima volcano

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Mount Kirishima

Mount Kirishima (霧島山 Kirishimayama) is a 1700 meter high active volcano group in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Numerous eruptions have been recorded since 742. Very strong eruptions happened in 788, 1716 and 1717.[citation needed] Augite-hypersthene andesite is the dominant rock type.[1]

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