Beaconing

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Beaconing
Bakening volcano.jpg
height 2278  m
location Kamchatka , Russia
Dominance 76 km →  Korjakskaya Sopka
Notch height 1610 m
Coordinates 53 ° 54 '18 "  N , 158 ° 4' 0"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '18 "  N , 158 ° 4' 0"  E
Bakening (Kamchatka Region)
Beaconing
Type Stratovolcano
rock Andesite , rhyodacite , dacite
Age of the rock Pleistocene
Last eruption 550 BC Chr.
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The volcano Bakening ( Russian Бакенинг ; occasionally Bakenin ) is a stratovolcano and is located just west of the Eastern volcanic chain of the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka about 100 kilometers north-northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky .

Much of the volcano was formed in the Pleistocene . On the north and north-east flank there are some Dazite lava domes , the youngest of which (Novo-Bakening, Russian for "New-Bakening") was built 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. A horseshoe-shaped indentation on the southeast flank is the result of a debris avalanche , which broke up 8,000 to 8,500 years ago and buried an area up to a distance of 11 kilometers in the east and south of the volcano. Two rivers in the east and northeast were dammed and two lakes were created. There are several cinder cones on the north and south flanks .

Some eruptions of the volcano can be dated on the basis of the tephrochronology to the following years: 7550 ± 500 BC. BC (discharge of 1.5 ± 0.5 cubic kilometers of lava), 6550 ± 500 BC. BC (output of 10 million cubic meters of tephra ), 6300 ± 300 BC BC, around 1550 BC BC and about 550 BC BC (emission of 2 million cubic meters of tephra).

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