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The Rikord Submarine Volcanic Massif, Kuril Island Arc

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This paper reports a study of the Rikord volcanic massif. The massif consists of four volcanic edifices that coalesce in their bases, and is most likely Quaternary. The massif discharged basaltic and basaltic andesite lavas during its earlier life. The observed high natural remanent magnetization that was found in dredged rocks is due to high concentrations of single-domain and pseudo-single-domain grains of titanomagnetite and magnetite. We have identified the directions of the conduits and the presence of peripheral magma chambers. A 3D model has been developed for the central part of the Rikord volcanic massif; the model includes ten large disturbing magnetic blocks that are most likely cooled, nearly vertical, conduits.

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  1. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, bul’var Piipa 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, 683006, Russia

    Yu. I. Blokh & V. A. Rashidov

  2. Nekrasov State University, ul. 1 Maya, 16, Kostroma, 156961, Russia

    V. I. Bondarenko

  3. Mining Institute, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Sibirskaya, 78a, Perm’, 614007, Russia

    A. S. Dolgal’ & P. N. Novikova

  4. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per., 7, Moscow, 109017, Russia

    V. V. Petrova

  5. Shmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. B. Gruzinskaya, 10, str. 1, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    O. V. Pilipenko

  6. AO GNPP Aerofizika, Pokhodnyi proezd, 19, Moscow, 125373, Russia

    A. A. Trusov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Blokh, V.I. Bondarenko, A.S. Dolgal’, P.N. Novikova, V.V. Petrova, O.V. Pilipenko, V.A. Rashidov, A.A. Trusov, 2018, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2018, No. 4, pp. 26–42.

To the memory of G.B. Udintsev, the pioneer in the study of submarine volcanoes at the Kuril island arc

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Blokh, Y.I., Bondarenko, V.I., Dolgal’, A.S. et al. The Rikord Submarine Volcanic Massif, Kuril Island Arc. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 12, 252–267 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046318040024

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