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Krasheninnikov

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  • Last Known Eruption
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  • 54.596°N
  • 160.27°E

  • 1816 m
    5958 ft

  • 300190
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Krasheninnikov.

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This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.

Eruptive History

There is data available for 31 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

1550 (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone (Pauk) & SW of S cone
1550 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Tephrochronology

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone (Pauk) & SW of S cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

1350 (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 0

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode SW flank of southern cone
1350 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Tephrochronology

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at SW flank of southern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
1350
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

0850 (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
0850 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

0750 (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 3

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Central N cone, SE flank of S cone
0750 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 5 Events for Episode 1 at Central N cone, SE flank of S cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone
   - - - -    - - - - Scoria
0750
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

0650 (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 2

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode NW flank and central northern cone
0650 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Tephrochronology

List of 5 Events for Episode 1 at NW flank and central northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Lava dome
   - - - -    - - - - Tephra
0650
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

0150 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 4

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
0150 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Caldera Explosion
0150 BCE
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

0250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
0250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

0350 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
0350 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lapilli
   - - - -    - - - - Scoria

0650 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone and southern cone flank
0650 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone and southern cone flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

0850 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone and southern cone flank
0850 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone and southern cone flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

1000 BCE ± 50 years Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 3

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
1000 BCE ± 50 years - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 4 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Directed Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Pumice
1000 BCE ± 50 years    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

1050 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
1050 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion weak or small
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

1150 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
1150 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

1350 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 3

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode N (Zametny) & S (Duga) flank fissures
1350 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 4 Events for Episode 1 at N (Zametny) & S (Duga) flank fissures

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone
1350 BCE
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

1650 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
1650 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

2250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
2250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

2950 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone & N outer flank fissure
2950 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone & N outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Phreatic activity
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

3250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
3250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

3550 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone & N outer flank fissure
3550 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 4 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone & N outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Phreatic activity
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone

4450 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern cone
4450 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Northern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

4850 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone
4850 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Ash

5050 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone
5050 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

5250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern outer flank fissure
5250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Northern outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone

5450 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone
5450 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 1 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion

5800 BCE ± 50 years Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 4

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone summit and west flank
5800 BCE ± 50 years - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone summit and west flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
5800 BCE ± 50 years    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

6000 BCE ± 50 years Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 4

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone summit and flank
6000 BCE ± 50 years - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 4 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone summit and flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Ash
6000 BCE ± 50 years    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

6250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Northern outer flank fissure
6250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Northern outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone

6350 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone summit and flank
6350 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone summit and flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

6550 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone summit, outer SW flank
6550 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone summit, outer SW flank

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

7250 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone & S outer flank fissure
7250 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 4 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone & S outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Phreatic activity
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone

8050 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode Southern cone & S outer flank fissure
8050 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1 at Southern cone & S outer flank fissure

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Cinder Cone
Deformation History

There is no Deformation History data available for Krasheninnikov.

Emission History

There is no Emissions History data available for Krasheninnikov.

Photo Gallery

Krasheninnikov is comprised of two overlapping edifices seen here from the north, with both cones topped by 800-m-wide craters. Construction of the northern cone (bottom) began about 6,500 years ago and eventually formed an inner cone within a 2-km-wide crater, the rim of which is visible to the left. The small inner cone of the northern crater was built during an eruption about 400 years ago which also produced a SW-flank lava flow.

Photo courtesy of Anatoli Khrenov, 1989 (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
The 800-m-wide crater of the northern cone of Krasheninnikov is seen here looking west across the crater. An eruption 400 years ago formed the small Pauk cone within this crater, and also produced a lava flow from a vent on the upper SW flank of the southern cone (at left out of view).

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
The northern (bottom) and southern (top) cones at the summit of Krasheninnikov were constructed within a 9-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera. The southern cone began forming about 11,000 years ago and the northern cone about 6,500 years ago; both have 800-m-wide craters. An eruption about 400 years ago produced the small Pauk cone within the northern crater (lower right).

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
Kronotsky is seen here to the NE of the broad summit of Krasheninnikov in the foreground. The slopes of the largely Pleistocene Kronotsky contain deep erosional valleys and had weak phreatic eruptions during the 20th century. Krasheninnikov has been active throughout the Holocene.

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
Kronotsky rises NE of the Kronotsky River, shown across the bottom of the photo. A small cone above the river to the right is one of several on the SW flank. The crater to the lower right is a lake-filled maar that formed at the northern end of a rift zone extending 8 km NNE from Krasheninnikov. The maar erupted along the NE flank of a large Pleistocene caldera inside which Krasheninnikov formed.

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
Kronotsky, seen here from the SW, towers above extensively eroded pyroclastic flow deposits. These voluminous deposits were produced by Pleistocene explosive eruptions that resulted in formation of the Uzon and Krasheninnikov calderas. The initial caldera-forming eruption at Uzon dates back to the mid-Pleistocene. A younger caldera formed about 39,000 years ago and was followed shortly by formation of the Krasheninnikov caldera.

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
GVP Map Holdings

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

The following 1 samples associated with this volcano can be found in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences collections, and may be availble for research (contact the Rock and Ore Collections Manager). Catalog number links will open a window with more information.

Catalog Number Sample Description Lava Source Collection Date
NMNH 116543-15 Dacite -- --
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