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*Ice Age (Quaternary Glaciation) from receding flood adds ice to Ararat summit helping seal petrified Ark as the dome builds up higher and higher
*More pillow lava occurs when extruded under ice, snow and melting waters shown by spheroidal weathering
*Ararat grows under the pressure of lava possibly higher than today when a deep-seated fracture from the intrusive force of a magmatic intrusion of granite or trachyte or syenite causes the northeast side to explode 1-3 cubic miles of volcanic rock debris and whitish toward northeast over 100 square miles creating the Ahora Gorge that shows the internals of the mountain
*Doming effect is apparent when one views the same limestone formations on all sides of Ararat as the bed dips away from the mountain on the Turkish, Armenian, and Persian sides (previous photo)
*The original mountain is coarse-grained porphyry with a light buff color and much pyrite indicating a deep-seated intrusive that cooled slowly, permitting the phenocrysts to form first then the whole mass was uplifted through the cover-rock allowing the remainder of the magma to cool more quickly and form fine grained crystals and glass. This inner core may represent the original mountain from creation.
*The many small "parasite" cones on the slopes helps explain why the ark may not have been destroyed over time by volcanic activity: the pressure was vented from those "parasite" cones, such that there was no single main cone from which magma would spew out and bury everything from the top down
*Ark probably broke into pieces during the violent eruption of mountain either
*Little Ararat and other parasitic cones are of more recent origin because it is smoother and less gullied and eroded
ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark
Ararat Geologic Scenario
Reference – Geologist Clifford Burdick