Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-05741
The bedded layers in this photo are tephra fall and pyroclastic surge deposits produced by successive explosions during the formation of a maar on the NE flank of Iliinsky in 1901. This eruption created a new crater 800 x 1,000 m wide and 200 m deep that opens to the NE.
Photo by Nikolai Smelov, 1996 (courtesy of Vera Ponomareva, Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk).
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Galleries: Volcanic Outcrops
Keywords: deposit | outcrop | geology | tephra
Iliinsky