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Shiveluch

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Shiveluch 

an active volcano on Kamchatka. Shiveluch has an elevation of 3,283 m and is composed of andesites and basalts. A Pelée-type volcano, it discharges very hot clouds of gas and ash together with lava fragments. Eruptions have occurred in 1790, 1854,1879–83,1896–98,1905,1927–29,1944–50, and 1964. Up to an elevation of 750 m, the slopes of Shiveluch are covered with forests and thickets of dwarf stone pine; at higher elevations, meadows and lava-ash surfaces are found.



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00 Hardcover Geophysical monograph; 172 QE527 The magnificent Kliuchevskoi and Shiveluch volcanoes rule over this sometimes hellish region, where the torn North Pacific slab dives into the hot mantle of the earth.
Helens between 1980 and 1982 and from Shiveluch, a Russian volcano, in 2001 and 2002.
 
 
 
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