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The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Fujinawa A, 1988. Tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magma series at Adatara volcano, Northeast Japan: 1. geochemical constraints on their origin. {Lithos}, 22: 135-158

Fujinawa A, Hayashi S, Umeda K, 2001. K-Ar ages for lava samples of Adatara volcano: reexamination of formation history of the volcano. {Bull Volc Soc Japan (Kazan)}, 46: 95-106 (in Japanese with English abs)

Fujinawa A, Kamoshida T, Tanase A, Tanimoto K, Nakamura Y, Kontani K, 2006. Reconsideration of the 1900 explosive eruption at Adatara volcano, northeastern Japan. {Bull Volc Soc Japan (Kazan)}, 51: 311-325 (in Japanese with English abs)

Japan Meteorological Agency, 1996. {National Catalogue of the Active Volcanoes in Japan (second edition)}. Tokyo: Japan Meteorological Agency, 502 p (in Japanese)

Kudo T, Hoshizumi H, 2006-. Catalog of eruptive events within the last 10,000 years in Japan, database of Japanese active volcanoes. Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://riodb02.ibase.aist.go.jp/db099/eruption/index.html

Kuno H, 1962. Japan, Taiwan and Marianas. {Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields}, Rome: IAVCEI, 11: 1-332

Murayama I, 1987. {Volcanoes of Japan (I)}. Tokyo: Daimedo, 315 p (2nd edition, in Japanese)

Nakano S, Yamamoto T, Iwaya T, Itoh J, Takada A, 2001-. {Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan}. Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/strata/VOL_JP/

Suzuki T, 1996. Discharge rates of fallout tephra and frequency of plinian eruptions during the last 400,000 years in the southern Northeast Japan arc. {Quat Internatl}, 34-36: 79-87

Yamamoto T, 1998. Holocene Sukawa lahar deposits at the western foot of Adatara volcano, NE Japan. {Bull Volc Soc Japan (Kazan)}, 43: 61-68 (in Japanese with English abs)

Yamamoto T, Sakaguchi K, 2000. Eruptive history of Adatara volcano, NE Japan, during last 250,000 years based on tephrostratigraphy. {Bull Jeol Soc Japan}, 106: 865-882 (in Japanese with English abs)

The broad forested massif of Adatara volcano is located east of Bandai volcano, about 15 km SW of Fukushima city. Adatara consists of a group of dominantly andesitic stratovolcanoes and lava domes that rise above Tertiary rocks on the south and abut Azuma volcano on the north. Adatara was constructed in three main stages that began about 550,000, 350,000, and 200,000 years ago. The high point of the complex is 1718-m-high Minowa-yama, a dome-shaped stratovolcano north of Tetsu-zan, the currently active stratovolcano. Numanotaira, the active summit crater, is surrounded by hot springs and fumaroles and is breached by the Io-gawa river ("Sulfur River") on the west. Seventy-two workers of a sulfur mine in the summit crater were killed during an eruption in 1900. Historical eruptions have been restricted to the 1.2-km-wide, 350-m-deep Numonotaira crater.