Variability of glaciers situated in volcanic regions of Kamchatka is considered. Glacier fluctuations, induced by climatic changes and volcanic activity are distinguished. Kozelsky Glacier advanced in 1971-1976. For five years it made a 330-meter advance and its area increased by 0.09 km . The advance was stimulated by favourable climatic conditions: big snowness of winters and cold summer ablation seasons. The Bil'chenok Glacier advanced in 1976-1977 after a 17-year quiescence period. The glacier terminus descended down to 1100 m a.s.l. and made a 500-m advance. The impact of present-day volcanism on glacier fluctuations was revealed: 1) glacier surges resulting from considerable water film at the glacier-bed boundary, accumulation of
additional volumes of eruptive material on its surface and also due to the growth of seismic activity; 2) shrinkage of the area and volume of glaciers -because of ice melting and washout of their parts by melt waters under thermal influence of erupting volcano and, in particular, in case of subglacial eruptions and ice contacts with lava flows; 3) destruction of ice and glaciers by catastrophic explosive eruptions and also in case of partial subsidence and stopong of volcanoes. Some examples of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on glaciers are given.

Данная книга — первое переиздание выпущенного в Санкт-Петербурге Российской Императорской академией наук в 1901 году научного труда известного исследователя Камчатки середины XIX века Карла фон Дитмара.
К книге прилагается "Карта Камчатки, пополненная по дневникам своих путешествий К. Дитмаром, 1889". На вклейках — иллюстрации из издания 1901 года: рисунки "Вид Авачинской губы с Петропавловском и Корякской сопкой", "Вид Петропавловска. Середина XIX века", "Порт Петра и Павла. Старинная гравюра" и "Геологическая карта Авачинской губы".
Текст сопровождается иллюстрациями: схематическими рисунками и картосхемами (планами).
Авт. ст. от изд-ва Е.В. Гропянов ; рецензент и науч. ред. И.В. Мелекесцев ; авт. предисл. к камч. изданию И.В. Мелекесцев. — [Переизд. по: Дитмар К. Поездки и пребывание в Камчатке в 1851–1855 гг. — Ч. 1 : Исторический отчет по путевым дневникам. — СПб., 1901].

Isotope-geochemical material for Pliocene-Quaternary volcanoes of the Kamchatka region is generalized on a cartographic basis. The Sr-isotope anomalies of moderate and elevated radiogenicity, geochemically confirmed, are spatially conjugated. This made it possible to interpret these anomalies not only as a reflection of mantle plume material in the composition of volcanic rocks, but also of its hybrid environment, as a consequence of plum-lithosphere remobilization. The presence of multi-directional geochemical trends made it possible to propose the concept of moving boundary values for the composition of indicator rocks of the intraplate type and adakites, which significantly expanded the possibilities of their diagnostics. The isotope-geochemical heterogeneity of basaltoids of the region is generally determined by the peculiarities of concentration of rocks with intraplate and adakite geochemical characteristics, which allows considering the asthenospheric diapirism as the main factor of petrogenesis of Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism in Kamchatka.