Keywords
explosive eruption
tephra
Krasheninnikov caldera
Section
Abstract
New data on the composition of the pyroclastic deposits of the Krasheninnikov caldera allowed us to correlate it to the previously studied tephra horizon Geys30, which until recently was erroneously attributed to an eruption within the Geysernaya caldera. Pyroclastic flow deposits from the eruption that led to the formation of the Krasheninnikov caldera were found on the southern shore of Kronotsky Lake, and its distal tephra was found in the sediments of the Central Kamchatka Depression (CKD) at a distance of up to 200 km from the source (from Milkovo to Kliuchi villages). The age of this tephra was previously estimated at ~30 ka, which now allows us to accept this estimate for the Krasheninnikov caldera. The identification of the tephra of the caldera-forming eruption in distal sections allows a minimum estimate of the erupted pyroclastic volume of ~13 km3 and the eruption magnitude of 6.1.
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