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This paper is concerned with results from the interpretation of continuous seismic profiling (CSP) data that were acquired during the 21st cruise of the R/V Pegas in 1980. The data are of relevance for the structure of conical seamounts and sea-hills at the foot of the Sea of Okhotsk margin of the Kuril island arc. The seamounts are extrusive domes (volcanoes) or magmatic diapirs with thick sedimentary caps of contrasting (at the top) and transparent (at the bottom) Cenozoic deposits. They were mostly formed in the Cenozoic, largely during Pliocene to Quaternary time; they resulted from viscous magma being emplaced into the sediments. There are also several small, buried domes with flattened bottoms that were formed by liquid magma being emplaced into the sediments (laccoliths or subvolcanoes). We also touch on questions relating to the terminology, geography, and history of submarine volcanism in the region and its relationship to the Benioff zone.
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Original Russian Text © V.L. Lomtev, V.N. Patrikeev, 2015, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2015, No. 2, pp. 44–55.
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Lomtev, V.L., Patrikeev, V.N. New evidence for the structure of conical seamounts and hills at the foot of the Sea of Okhotsk margin of the Kuril island arc: Continuous seismic-profiling data. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 9, 104–115 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046315020050
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