Bolshoy Ketepana volcano

Shield 1521 m / 4990 ft
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 57.05°N / 158.37°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Bolshoy Ketepana volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

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Background

Bolshoy Ketepana is a large isolated lower-Pleistocene shield volcano on the west side of the Sredinny Range (Ogorodov et al. 1972).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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