Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes is a volcanic region located in the Central Kamchatka volcanotectonic depression on the Kamchatka Peninsula [1] .
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General Information
The largest group of volcanoes in Russia , the area it occupies is 6.5 thousand km². It is located in the central part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the lower reaches of the Kamchatka River, on its eastward turn, at the headwaters of the Right and Left Tolbachik, Sukhoi Hapitsa, Studena rivers.
This group of volcanoes is located at the junction of the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian volcanic zones. Her age is estimated by scientists at several hundred thousand years [2] .
There are 14 volcanoes in the group, and it consists of four active volcanoes - Nameless , Far Flat , Klyuchevsky and Flat Tolbachik and 10 extinct - Stone , Middle Flat , Middle , Acute Tolbachik , Ostroi Zimina , Oval Zimina, Lesser Zimina, Mountain Tooth , Big Oudins and Little Oudins [3] . In addition, on the area of the Klyuchevskaya group there are about 400 smaller volcanic formations such as lava and slag cones, extrusive domes.
Notes
- ↑ Depression Volcanic-Tectonic Geological Dictionary, 1973
- ↑ Fedotov S. A., Zharinov N. A., Gontovaya L. I. About activity, magmatic feeding system and deep structure of the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes // Volcanism and geodynamics: Proceedings of the IV All-Russian Symposium on Volcanology and Seismology. - 2009 .-- S. 22-27 .
- ↑ Volcanoes, geothermal systems of Kamchatka: materials of the IV All-Union Volcanological Conference. - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 1974.- 224 p.
See also
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Links
- Volcanoes of the Central Kamchatka Depression in the information system "Volcanoes of the Kuril-Kamchatka Island Arc" IVIS FEB RAS.
- Ermakov V.A. Tectonics and volcanotectonics of the Klyuchevsky group of volcanoes . IVIS FEB RAS.
- Fedotov S.A., Zharinov N.A., Gontovaya L.I. Magmatic feeding system of the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes according to its eruptions, deformations, earthquakes and seismotomography // Volcanology and Seismology. 2010. No. 1. S. 3-35.
- Kluchevskaya group of volcanoes on the local history website of the Kamchatka Territory