Russia · Stratovolcano
Antsiferov Island
Shirinki
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Elevation
- 693m
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Country
- Russia
- Region
- Northwestern Pacific / Kuril Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 693m
- Coordinates
- 50.197, 154.978
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary
The 3-km-diameter island of Shirinki is located west of the main Kuril Island arc and ~20 km WSW of Fuss Peak on Paramushir Island. The truncated andesitic cone has a 750-m-wide breached summit crater with multiple peaks around the rim and two lava domes near the headwall of the breached crater. No eruptions have been documented, but the summit domes were considered to be very young by Gorshkov (1970). The remnants of an older edifice on the eastern side of the island are mostly covered by pumiceous pyroclastic-fall deposits.
From Wikipedia
Antsiferov Island , also known as Shirinki Island , is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the northern Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its Japanese name derives from the Ainu language for "place of tall waves". Its nearest neighbor is Paramushir, located 15 km away across the Luzhin Strait. It is currently named for the cossack explorer Danila Antsiferov, who first described it along with other northern Kuril islands in the early eighteenth century.
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No eruption records available.
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