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Uzon

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Location
  
Kamchatka, Russia

Elevation
  
1,617 m

Mountain type
  
Volcanic calderas

Last eruption
  
5700 BC

Uzon wwwairpanorufilesKamchatkaUzonimagesimage3jpg

Similar
  
Avachinsky, Mutnovsky, Gorely, Maly Semyachik, Kurile Lake

Uzon (Russian: Узон) is a 9 by 12 km volcanic caldera located in the eastern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Together with the Geyzernaya caldera it hosts the largest geothermal field in the Kamchatka Peninsula. The calderas were formed in the mid-Pleistocene in several large eruptions that deposited 20–25 km3 of ignimbrite over a wide area. Lake Dalny fills a Holocene maar in the northeast of Uzon Caldera.

Map of Uzon, Kamchatka Krai, Russia, 684305

The Uzon Caldera is a location of the occurrence of extremophile micro-organisms due to its high localized temperatures.(C.Michael Hogan. 2010)

References

Uzon Wikipedia