Chikurachki

Chikurachki

Paramushir, Kuril Islands, Russia

Chikurachki (Russian: Чикурачки; Japanese: 千倉岳, Chikura-dake) is the highest volcano on Paramushir Island in the northern Kuril Islands. It is actually a relatively small volcanic cone constructed on a high Pleistocene volcanic edifice. Oxidized andesitic scoria deposits covering the upper part of the young cone give it a distinctive red color. Lava flows from the 1,816-metre (5,958 ft) high Chikurachki reached the sea and formed capes on the northwest coast; several young lava flows also emerge from beneath the scoria blanket on the eastern flank.

See also

• List of volcanoes in Russia
• List of ultras of Northeast Asia

Notes

References

• Siebert L, Simkin T (2002–present). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3 (http://www.volcano.si.edu).
• "Chikurachki". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
• "Vulkan Chikurachki, Russia" on Peakbagger

This Sakhalin Oblast location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e