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Kuril Island Volcanoes
Physical Setting Geology Volcanoes Earthquakes Biology Cultural History	The Kuril archipelago is an active volcanic island arc spanning the Okhotsk-Pacific boundary between the more terrestrial arcs of Japan and Kamchatka. The Kurils comprise 160 Quaternary terrestrial and 89 submarine volcanoes, built upon a Cretaceous to Neogene basement (Gorshkov 1970; Nemoto and Sasa 1960). Thirty-two of these volcanoes have erupted in the past 300 years (Ishizuka 2001). Volcanoes from south to north Golivnin Mendeleev Smirnov Tiatia Berutarube Lvinaya Past Atsonupuri Bogatyr Ridge Grozny Group Baransky Chirip Golets-Tornyi Group Medvezhia Demon Ivao Group Rudakov Tri Sestry Kolokol Group Chirpoi Milne Goriaschaia Sopka Zavaritzki Caldera Prevo Peak Urataman Ketoi Ushishur Rasshua Sarychev Peak Raikoke Kuntomintar Sinarka Ekarma Chirinkotan Kharimkotan Tao-Rusyr Caldera Nemo Peak Shirinki Fuss Peak Karpinksy Group Lomonosov Group Chikurachki Vernadskii Ridge Ebeko Aliad Useful Links Global Volcanism Program Volcanoes of the Kurils Volcanic Acivity and Recent Tephras in the Kuril Islands
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