Seongsan Sunrise Peak

Seongsan Ilchulbong, likewise called 'Dawn Peak', is a model tuff cone shaped by hydrovolcanic ejections upon a shallow seabed around 5 thousand years prior. Arranged on the eastern seaboard of Jeju Island and said to take after an immense old stronghold, this tuff cone is 182 meters high, has a saved dish like pit furthermore shows various internal structures coming about because of the ocean bluff. These elements are thought to be of geologic worth, giving data on
eruptive and depositional procedures of hydromagmatic volcanoes worldwide and additionally past volcanic action of Seongsan Ilchulbong itself.

Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone was framed by Surtseyan-sort hydrovolcanic movement upon a shallow seabed around 5,000 years back when the ocean level was same as the present (Sohn and Chough, 1992; Sohn et al., 2002). Most volcanic cones or oreums (Jeju lingo for volcanic cones) were framed by heaps of scoria cones which are made by Hawaiian ejections or Strombolian emissions. In any case, Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone and a couple of different oreums on Jeju Island were hydromagmatic volcanoes which were made by heaps of volcanic powder, the collaboration of hot rising magma and seawater or ground water. Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone is 180 meters high, and its pit is around 600 meters in distance across. It has a plunge of strata up to 45 degrees and is 90 meters from ocean level to the hole floor.

Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone ejected in extremely sodden and sticky conditions permitting a great deal of water to penetrate into the volcanic vent, making the various depositional elements of a wet emission. The wet hydrovolcanic action proceeded until the end of the ejection. Hence, the tuff has a dish like pit unfilled by scoria or magma.

Aside from the northwestern park, the Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone shapes a lofty precipice in light of the resultant wave taking after its ejections. Through these ejections, Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone demonstrates an impeccable cross area from the intracrater strata to the minor strata. Its differing topographical structures are considered to have extraordinary land significance on the grounds that they may be utilized to translate not just the past volcanic movement of the Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone additionally eruptive and depositional procedures of hydromagmatic volcanoes around the world.

There are various hydromagmatic volcanoes like the Seongsan Ilchulbong, however there are no other known hydromagmatic volcanoes with a very much saved tuff cone and assorted interior structures along an ocean bluff. In view of these experimental qualities and noteworthy landscape, Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone could be assigned as an UNESCO World Natural Heritage site[1] and it merits saving for all time as a characteristic legacy of mankind.