Karymsky
Helicopter Tour... |
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Karymsky.
Has been erupting regularily for a while, is constantly
at color code orange.
See weekly
reports about active volcanoes by the Kamchatka Volcano
Emergency Response Team (KVERT).
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Karymsky
volcano is a relatively short (1,486 m) and young (6,100years
old) volcano, the most active one in Kamchatka. There
have been 23 eruptions in this century only, the latest
one started in 1996 and was going on for two years gradually
fading. The eruptions of Karymsky volcano are accompanied
with bursts and throw-outs of ash and bombs going out
from the central crater, with lava effusing. As a rule,
the lava of Karymsky are so glutinous that the flaming
torrents do not always reach the foot of the volcano.
The latest eruption of Karymsky volcano would have been
like any other one, but it was different coinciding
with an under-water eruption in the Karymsky lake that
is 6 km away from the volcano. It lasted not more than
18-20 hours, but that short period included over 100
under-water bursts each accompanied with waves tsunami
15 meters high. The lake was actually boiling. The temperature
went up rapidly, and salt and acid components reached
the concentration that killed all the life in the lake
including the school of "kokani", a lake species
of sock-eye salmon cultivated by ichthyologists in the
Karymsky lake. As a result of this eruption, the Karymsky
lake that used to be ultra-fresh turned into the biggest
natural reservoir of acid water in the world. From Kamchatka.org.ru |
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Karymsky.
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Karymsky.
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Lava
flows from Karymsky bounded by a caldera, also from
Karymsky. |
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Lava
flows from Karymsky bounded by a caldera, also from
Karymsky. |
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Helicopter
(we took 3 of these, ~ 20 people per helicopter) inside
the caldera around Karymsky, which is in the background. |
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Watching
the 2nd helicopter land inside the caldera (I was on
the first one). |
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Watching
the 3rd helicopter round Karymsky to land (it carried
all our food in it!) |
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Trying
to catch a shot with me, the volcano and the helicopter,
without loosing my eardrums or my muff. Thanks Adam.
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The
clseo-up. |
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Now
tell me you don't think that looks like a muppet? Those
beady eyes, those huge teeth, that crazy haiirdo. |
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Mountain
hairbell, just like in Alaska. |
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Maly
Semyachek. It is a volcanic mountain range 3 km long
with 3 craters on its crest. In its southern crater
(the crater of Troitski), there is an unusual acid lake
in the depth of 170m. The temperature in this opaque,
sometimes turquoise sometimes green lake, ranges from
+27`C to +42`C while the level of mineralization is
equal to an average concentration of sulphate and hydrochloric
acids. The size of the lake amazes: it is about half
kilometer wide and is 140m deep. From Kamchatka.org.ru
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Maly
Semyachek. |
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Maly
Semyachek. |
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Maly
Semyachek. |
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Akademia
Nauk. The Akademia Nauk volcano was formed late pleictocene
in the so called third eruptive phase of Karymsky. It
started life as a small stratovolcano inside the Odnoboky
caldera. Later Akademia Nauk collapsed and became a
caldera itself.Akademia Nauk is still active On january
the 2nd 1996 a phraetomagmatic eruption occured. This
eruption coincided with an eruption of Karymsky volcano.
Pumice and pyroclastic sediments blocked the Karysmkaya
river. During this eruption the Novogodny peninsula
was formed in lake Karymskoye. In craters and vents
of this island interesting fumarol mineralogy was formed.
Only five month later, in may, the river broke through
and washed away this locality. From Maurice
Strahlen |
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Akademia
Nauk. |
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Inside
my helicopter, the windows OPEN! That's insane! |
