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Also known as Taunshitz

Taunshits () is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Taunshits
Mountain.photo
Taunshits.jpg
Mountain.elevation_m
2353
Mountain.prominence_m
1550
Mountain.listing
Ultra, Ribu
Mountain.map
Russia
Mountain.map_caption
Russia
Mountain.location
Kamchatka, Russia
Mountain.range
Eastern Range
Mountain.type
Stratovolcano
Mountain.last_eruption
550 BCE

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
volcano
Elevation
2353
Image
Taunshits.jpg
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topographic prominence
1550
mountain range
Eastern Range
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Encyclopedic overview

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Taunshits () is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

It is part of the Kamchatka-Kurile volcanic arc, and volcanism in this arc is caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Okhotsk Plate. More specifically, volcanic activity at Taunshits relates to a local system of eastward-trending faults, and some additional volcanoes are controlled by the same fault system, such as Uzon and Kikhpinych which lie both east of Taunshits.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taunshits” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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