Elovsky Volcano
Updated: Apr 18, 2024 01:51 GMT -
Shield volcanoes 1381 m / 4,531 ft
Kamchatka, Russia, 57.55°N / 160.53°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Kamchatka, Russia, 57.55°N / 160.53°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Elovsky volcano eruptions: 7550 BC ± 500 years
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Background
A cluster of overlapping small Icelandic-type basaltic shield volcanoes is located east of the crest of the Sredinny Range, NE of Shishel volcano and SE of Alngey volcano. The largest edifice is the 1381-m-high Elovsky shield volcano. The smaller 1021-m-high Ozernoy shield volcano lies immediately to the SE of Elovsky. The massive early Holocene Ozernovsky lava flow, located immediately NE of Elovsky, traveled to the ESE down a glacially dissected valley on the flanks of the Sredinny Range. The flow is postglacial in age, but older than roughly 7000-year-old tephra layers from Khangar volcano. The massive flow dammed tributary valleys, creating several lakes near the headwaters of the Levaya and Pravaya Ozeraya rivers and forming a lava field covering an area of 100 sq km.---
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