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Zheltovsky

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  • Russia
  • Stratovolcano
  • 1923 CE
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  • Primary Volcano Type
  • Last Known Eruption
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  • 51.577°N
  • 157.328°E

  • 1926 m
    6319 ft

  • 300040
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Zheltovsky.

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Eruptive History

There is data available for 4 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

[ 1972 Mar 16 ± 15 days ] Uncertain Eruption

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
1972 Mar 16 ± 15 days - Unknown Evidence from Unknown

List of 2 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Phreatic activity Uncertain
1972 Mar    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

1923 Feb 11 - 1923 Apr Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 3

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
1923 Feb 11 - 1923 Apr Evidence from Observations: Reported

List of 5 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Ash
   - - - -    - - - - Flames
1923 Feb 11    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

[ 1823 ± 5 years ] Uncertain Eruption

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
1823 ± 5 years - Unknown Evidence from Unknown

3050 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 5

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
3050 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)

List of 3 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Pumice
3050 BCE
(?)
   - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)

6050 BCE (?) Confirmed Eruption  

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
6050 BCE (?) - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Tephrochronology

List of 2 Events for Episode 1

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

7050 BCE ± 1000 years Confirmed Eruption Max VEI: 5

Episode 1 | Eruption Episode
7050 BCE ± 1000 years - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Tephrochronology

List of 4 Events for Episode 1

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Pyroclastic flow
   - - - -    - - - - Caldera Explosion
7050 BCE ± 1000 years    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index)
Deformation History

There is no Deformation History data available for Zheltovsky.

Emission History

There is no Emissions History data available for Zheltovsky.

Photo Gallery

Zheltovsky, seen here from Diky Greben volcano to its SW, was constructed during the last 8,000 years within a 4 x 5 km caldera truncating an earlier Pleistocene edifice. A late-Holocene explosive eruption formed a 1.6-km-wide summit crater that was largely filled by four lava domes, the latest of which forms the present summit. A large eruption in 1923 produced explosive activity and a lava flow down the SE flank that partially flowed into a crater.

Photo by Oleg Volynets (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
The maar crater in the foreground formed during an eruption in 1901 on the NE flank of Iliinsky volcano. Light-colored tephra was deposited around the rim of the crater and cover the flanks of the volcano. At the end of the eruption lava was extruded on the floor of the 200-m-deep, 1-km-wide crater. Zheltovsky is the volcano to the left of this image.

Photo by Philip Kyle, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1996 (courtesy of Vera Ponomareva, IVGG, Petropavlovsk).
Zheltovsky rises across a valley NE of Iliinsky volcano. The flat shelf on the right flank is the eastern rim of a 4 x 5 km, largely buried Pleistocene caldera. The western rim of a smaller, late-Holocene caldera forms the break in slope on the left side just below the summit lava dome complex. The crater in the foreground is a NE-flank maar of Iliinsky that formed in 1901.

Photo by Nikolai Smelov, 1996 (courtesy of Vera Ponomareva, Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk).
The circular caldera at the center of this International Space Station image with N to the upper right is Pizrak caldera. The Holocene Kell volcano is visible within the caldera. This remote volcanic complex in southern Kamchatka contains three partially nested 3-5 km wide calderas containing lava domes and cones, of which Kell is the highest. The larger edifice to the lower left is Zheltovsky.

NASA International Space Station image ISS004-E-11700, 2002 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).
Zheltovsky is in the center of this September 2019 Planet Labs satellite image monthly mosaic (N is at the top; this image is approximately 19 km across). The cone formed within a 4 x 5 km caldera and has a 1.6-km-wide summit crater that has been filled by lava domes. A 2012 landslide is visible on the SE flank, likely a result of altered rock and not related to volcanic activity.

Satellite image courtesy of Planet Labs Inc., 2019 (https://www.planet.com/).
GVP Map Holdings

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Zheltovsky in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

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