Five Minute Volcano
You got 5 minutes, right? Well, then spend it learning about a new volcano each week. Your host Dr. Erik Klemetti (a professional volcanologist) will feature a new volcano with all the facts you need and likely quite a few facts you don't. Wow your friends with how much you know about some random volcano. It'll be our secret.
Five Minute Volcano
5 Minute Volcano #4, Terpuk, Russia
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Episode 4
This week's 5 Minute Volcano takes us to the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. Terpuk is a remote shield volcano that captures some of the odd magmatic and tectonic processes happening way up in the northern end of the peninsula.
Some sources for this episode:
- The Global Volcanism Program's page on Terpuk.
- A short paper on the timing of volcanism in northern Kamchatka by M.M. Pevzner.
- A map showing the complex tectonics of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
- A short paper on the origin of the odd lavas from the Sredinny Ridge by Nekrylov and colleagues.
- A longer look in Lithos on the magmatic processes at work in the Sredinny Ridge area by Anna Volynet and colleagues.
This week's music was "More News from Nowhere" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
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