Asacha

Middle: Volcano Golaja, top right: Volcano Assatscha

The volcano group Assatscha (Russian Асача ) is a complex massif west-southwest of Mutnovsky volcano. The volcano group consists of the old shield volcano Assatscha, the stratovolcano Scholty (Russian Жёлтый ) in the east, the younger crater Tumanow as well as today's young volcanic Assatscha. Ten lava domes are located on the flanks of the volcano Assatscha group. Most of them, and several basaltic cinder cones and lava flows on the western and southern flanks of the Assatscha complex originated in the Pleistocene and the Holocene. In 1983, a strong tectonic earthquake in the area of ​​Scholty volcano, suggesting that the area is still volcanically active occurred.

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  • Assatscha in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
  • Mountain in Asia
  • Mountain in Russia
  • Eintausender
  • Complex volcano
  • Kamchatka region
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