Central Kamchatka volcanic belt 

(Eocene to Quaternary) 

(Central Kamchatka Peninsula, unit QTvi)

Extends for 1,500 km longitudinally the Kamchatka Peninsula (Sredinnyi Range). Chiefly thick, gently 
dipping andesite, dacite, and rhyolite strata interlayered with sandstone, siltstone, and conglomerate, and 
widespread large ignimbrite fields. Shallow-marine deposits predominant in the lower part and nonmarine 
deposits predominant in the upper part. Formation of the belt culminated with eruptions of Pliocene to 
Quaternary plateau basalts that are associated with stratovolcanoes. REFERENCES: Vlasov, 1964, 1977; 
Erlikh, 1973; Poplitove and Volynets, 1982.