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Tectonics and magma chambers of the recent Tolbachik Fissure Eruption (Kamchatka Peninsula)

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Structural-geological, petrological, seismotectonic, and seismotomographic data received in regions of areal volcanism of the south-southwest sector of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano area are considered. The fissure eruption occurring here from November 2012 to the middle of September 2013 was called 50 years of IVS after the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. A joint analysis of new and retrospective data allows us to suggest a model for the recent eruption and formulate some problems for future studies and eruption forecasting.

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. A. Ermakov

  2. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

    L. I. Gontovaya

  3. Kamchatka Branch of Geophysical Service, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

    S. L. Senyukov

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Ermakov, L.I. Gontovaya, S.L. Senyukov, 2014, published in Geofizicheskie Protsessy i Biosfera, 2014, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 5–33.

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Ermakov, V.A., Gontovaya, L.I. & Senyukov, S.L. Tectonics and magma chambers of the recent Tolbachik Fissure Eruption (Kamchatka Peninsula). Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 50, 745–765 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433814080039

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