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Ploskiy volcano

Updated: Nov 29, 2023 09:07 GMT - refresh

Stratovolcano 877 m / 2877 ft
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 52.37°N / 157.62°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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

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Background

The lower-Pleistocene conical basaltic volcano Ploskiy is located west of Asacha volcano north of a large group of late-Pleistocene to Holocene pyroclastic cones (Masurenkov 1980).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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