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Russia: Maly Semiachik is a compound str ...

  • Maly Semyachik, Kamchatka Krai, Russia, 684304
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Natura incontaminata
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Maly Semiachik is a compound stratovolcano located in a 10-km-wide caldera within the 15 x 20 km mid-Pleistocene Stena-Soboliny caldera. Following construction during the late Pleistocene of the Paleo-Semiachik volcano beginning about 20,000 years before present (BP), activity migrated to the SW, forming Meso-Semiachik (about 11,000-9000 BP) and Ceno-Semiachik (about 8000 BP to the present). An initial stage lasting about 3500 years was dominantly explosive, constructing the present cone. A second stage beginning about 4400 years ago was marked by alternating constructive and destructive processes during which the volcano was destroyed by major explosions and then reconstructed. A crater turquoise lake fills the historically active Troitsky Crater, which formed during a large explosive eruption about 400 years ago.

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