The currently active Troitsky crater of Maly Semiachik formed during an explosive eruption about 400 years ago. The eastern crater wall shows light-colored hydrothermally altered rocks of the vent complex that are overlain by darker lava flows and fall deposits from eruptions that followed formation of the crater. A hot, acidic lake now fills the crater, which has been the source of historical eruptions.

Photo by Oleg Volynets (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).

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Galleries: Craters

Keywords: crater | crater lake | stratigraphy | outcrop

Maly Semyachik