Lower cone (3896 m), Mount Ararat Small, southeast looming right in the main peak. Plato lava lies between 2 peak. Technically, Ararat is stratovulkanik, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta.
The characteristics of the shape of the vessel which is interpreted aerial photographs of Ararat caused a stir in the late 1950s (see pseudoarkeologi), although the expedition to find the characteristics of the avalanche and lava flows. One of the locations marked by the Turkish government as a place of Noah's Ark is Durupinar.