Rakkibetsudake [Demon]

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Japan - administered by Russia, Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Kde

Japan - administered by Russia, Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

1 167 m

Poloha

45,501°, 148,861°

Rakkibetsudake [Demon], along with the Pleistocene Kamui volcano, forms the northern peninsula of the NW end of Iturup Island. Gorshkov (1970) wrote that the large cone was built in the Holocene, with lavas that "flooded U-shaped valleys of the second glaciation" and late activity was "an eastward-directed explosion" followed by "subsequent erosion [that] cut a large canyon through from the caldera to the shore of Vries Strait." No subsequent work is known that supports this directed-blast interpretation of the existing partially filled scarp open to the ENE, or that describes any Holocene eruptions. Unlike Moyorodake volcano on the peninsula to the S, this volcanic complex is not included in the list of active volcanoes by the Japan Meteorological Agency (2013). It is listed as late Pleistocene by Nakano et al. (2001-).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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