East Kamchatka volcanic belt 

(Pliocene to Holocene) 

(Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, units Qvi, QTvi)

Consists chiefly of a major chain of modern volcanoes of Pliocene and younger age. Main lithologies are 
basalt, andesite-basalt, rare dacite, and tuff. The belt is the northward continuation of modern Kuril 
volcanic arc which started to form in the Neogene. REFERENCES: Vlasov, 1964; Erlikh, 1973; Volynets 
and others, 1990.