Mount Fuji - A Living Mountain [HD]

Mt. Fuji is a mountain that has grown with the accumulations of lava flow over and repeated eruptions in the vicinity of the same volcanic crater. This was long thought to have taken place over three stages, called ’Komitake’, ’Old Fuji’, and ’New Fuji’, but explorations beneath Komitake in 2004 revealed the existence of a fourth, ’Proto-Komitake’ stage, and investigations are continuing. It is thought that eruptions from this Proto-Komitake formed Komitake several hundred thousand years ago. An eruption fr