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Golets-Tornyi volcano

pyroclastic cones 442 m / 1,450 ft
Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, 45.25°N / 148.35°E
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5)
Typical eruption style: explosive
Golets-Tornyi volcano eruptions: unknown, probably ca. 10,000 years ago
Last earthquakes nearby: No recent earthquakes
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Golets and Tornyi are 2 pyroclastic cones located SW of Medvezhii on Iturup Island, Kurile Islands, Russia. They occupy one of the narrowest parts of the island.
The age of their last eruptions is unknown, but probably about 10,000 years ago. A lava flow from the andesitic-dacitic Tornyi cone (417 m) is seen inside a glacial depression.
Golets cone itself was constructed above the eroded remnants of the extinct Parusnaya Mountain volcano. Lava flows from Golets reached the coast.
(Source: GVP / Smithsonian volcano information)


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