Iliinsky, seen here from the NW, was constructed beginning about 8,000 years ago within a 4-km-wide caldera about the same age as the adjacent Kurile Lake caldera. A period of explosive volcanism during the mid-Holocene lasted 1,000-1,500 years. Growth of the modern cone was completed during the late Holocene. Lava flows cover much of the northern flanks and a 1901 eruption produced a 1-km-wide crater on the NE flank.

Photo by Oleg Dirksen, 1996 (courtesy of Vera Ponomareva, Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk).

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Galleries: Stratovolcanoes

Keywords: stratovolcano

Iliinsky