None of them. Being “in” God’s image should be regarded as being “as” God’s image, which makes it a function: the world is a temple to/for God, and we are the image/idol/icon in the temple. It is a theological status that has nothing to do with any of our characteristics – indeed there are some severe risks if it is taken as being characteristics, e.g some early Christians held that reason was essential to the image, and thus that human life didn’t really begin until a child could talk (happily they were a small minority).
I don’t know about Ararat, but volcanoes such as Kilauea have many thousands of layers between the sea floor and the present caldera. Most of the layers don’t lie directly on prior layers but on surfaces that supported life, sea life to being with and then land life, the latter including substantial deposits of sand, which takes a long time to form, and rich soils, which require both degradation of volcanic cinder and ash plus decomposition and inclusion of plant matter.
Then there are volcanoes like Oregon’s Three Sisters complex which have similar cycles but grow more vertically due to the dominant lava type, while having their own indicators of immense age, such as lava types changing over time – a phenomenon resulting from changing composition of the contents of the magma chamber, something that requires hundreds of thousands of years since minerals in magma differentiate very slowly.
A truly biblical model will ask first what the text is rather than assuming it must be what it appears to be to a particular interpreter.