Tunkin Depression

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Russia, Eastern Asia Volcanic Regions

Kde

Russia, Eastern Asia Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

1 200 m

Poloha

51,500°, 102,500°

The Tunkin Depression volcanic field (also known as the Tunka Depression) covers a broad area immediately west of the SW tip of Lake Baikal. The Khobok group of basaltic cinder cones near the village of Tunka, one of five groups of cinder cones characterized by some sources as late-Pleistocene to Holocene in age, has the largest concentration of vents. Drill cores show that the upper 500 m of the basin is filled with Quaternary tuffs and a dozen lava flows; subsidence continues, partially burying volcanic features. Other cinder cones of probable Pleistocene age are located to the SE in the Khamar-Dayan Range. The youngest cinder cones and lava flows are in the NE part of the Tunkin Depression. A regional review by Ivanov et al. (2015) mapped volcanism in this area as Pleistocene.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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