Изучены петро- и геохимические особенности пород Карымского вулканического центра (КВЦ), который является наиболее крупным в Восточном вулканическом поясе Камчатки. Формирование КВЦ происходило ритмично, начиная с конца плиоцена, с образованием последовательных дифференцированных комплексов пород. Закономерное изменение макро- и микроэлементов в вулканических породах КВЦ объясняется процессами фракционирования минеральных фаз из исходного расплава. При этом происходило обогащение остаточных расплавов щелочами, литофильными элементами (Rb, Ba, Sr, Pb, Th, U, РЗЭ) и истощение когерентными элементами (Ni, Cr, Sc, Ti). Результаты геохимического исследования вулканических пород КВЦ указывают на принадлежность их к типичным островодужным образованиям. Отношения несовместимых элементов предполагают двухкомпонентную систему магмообразования: обедненный мантийный источник (N-MORB) и надсубдукционные флюиды (островодужный компонент). Вероятны процессы контаминации расплава в кровле промежуточного очага метасоматизированным субстратом, добавка кумулусных кристаллических фаз (и расплавов) более ранних этапов магмообразования в КВЦ.

Bezymianny is one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka and the world. Its previous eruption occurred on March 15, 2019. This paper describes the explosive eruption of the volcano on October 21, 2020, and the events preceding it based on the study of video and various satellite data. Satellite monitoring of the volcano has been carried out using the information system “Remote monitoring of the activity of Kamchatka and Kurile volcanoes” (VolSatView) since 2014. Explosions raised ash up to 10–11 km above sea level, in connection with a cyclone in the Kamchatka region, the eruptive cloud was divided into two, the northern part of which was over the Klyuchevskoy group of volcanoes during October 21–23, and the southern part moved more than 1000 km southeast of the volcano. The main area of the territory where ashfalls were noted at 10:11 GMT on October 22, 2020, was about 111.5 thousand km2, including 60.8 thousand km2 on land. An animated image of the ash cloud movement from the volcano is shown, made according to a series of images of Himawari-8 in the VolSatView (http://kamchatka.volcanoes.smislab.ru/animation/1603972936.webm). The VEI for this eruption is 2.

Bezymianny Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka and in the world. This paper describes the preparation, behavior, products, dynamics, and the geological effect of the March 15, 2019 explosive eruption of the volcano, which was predicted 6.5 h before it began. The sequence of eruptive events was analyzed using data provided by video and satellite-based monitoring of the volcano; the quantitative characteristics for the distribution of pyroclastic deposits were obtained in the information system “Remote Monitoring of Activity of Volcanoes in Kamchatka and the Kurile Islands”. The explosions lifted ash to heights of 15 km above sea level (up to 12 km above the volcano), the eruptive cloud was moving northeastward and east from the volcano, the main ashfall area was 210 400 km2, including 15 000 km2 on land. Apart from tephra, the eruption produced pyroclastic flows and pyroclastic surges covering an area of 30 km2. The total volume of explosive products is estimated as 0.1–0.2 km3. The eruptive rocks are calc-alkaline moderate-K basaltic andesites (SiO2 = 54.84–56.29 wt %), they are the most mafic among all rocks of the current Bezymianny eruption cycle.

During the voyages of R\V Vulkanolog in the eighties of the last century the kamchatkan scientists studied 17 geophysical profiles (about 1100 route kilometres) within the submarine Shokalsky Ridge. The investigation showed that the Shokalsky Ridge is comprised of 4 large volcanic massives. Numerous faults were revealed within the ridge area, including those with traces of recent activity. Shift amplitude along some faults may be as long as several hundreds of meters. Canyons that split the Shokalsky Ridge are chiefly confined to the cross keystone faults.