Isotopic and Petrologic Investigation, and a Thermomechanical Model of Genesis of Large-Volume Rhyolites in Arc Environments: Karymshina Volcanic Complex, Kamchatka, Russia

• Published in: Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk Seriya Geograficheskaya
• Main Authors: Bindeman, Ilya N., Leonov, Vladimir L., Colón, Dylan P., Rogozin, Aleksey N., Shipley, Niccole, Jicha, Brian, Loewen, Matthew W., Gerya, Taras
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2019
• Subjects: Kamchatka Peninsula; Karymshina; Pacific; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/329418; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000329418

The Kamchatka Peninsula of eastern Russia is currently one of the most volcanically active areas on Earth where a combination of >8 cm/yr subduction convergence rate and thick continental crust generates large silicic magma chambers, reflected by abundant large calderas and caldera complexes. Thi...