No latest activity reported for Zheltovsky.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Braitseva O A, Melekestsev I V, Ponomareva V V, Sulerzhitsky L D, 1995. Ages of calderas, large explosive craters and active volcanoes in the Kuril-Kamchatka region, Russia. {Bull Volc}, 57: 383-402

Erlich E N, 1986. Geology of the calderas of Kamchatka and Kurile Islands with comparison to calderas of Japan and the Aleutians, Alaska. {U S Geol Surv Open-File Rpt}, 86-291: 1-300

Fedotov S A, Masurenkov Y P (eds), 1991. {Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka}. Moscow: Nauka Pub, 2 volumes

IAVCEI, 1973-80. Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World. {IAVCEI Data Sheets, Rome: Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior}.

Kozhemyaka N N, 1995. Active volcanoes of Kamchatka: types and growth time of cones, total volumes of erupted material, productivity, and composition of rocks. {Volc Seism}, 16: 581-594 (English translation)

Masurenkov Y P (ed), 1980. {Volcanic Center: Structure, Dynamics and Products}. Moscow: Nauka Pub, 299 p (in Russian)

Vlodavetz V I, Piip B I, 1959. Kamchatka and Continental Areas of Asia. {Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields}, Rome: IAVCEI, 8: 1-110

Zheltovsky volcano was constructed during the last 8000 years within a 4 x 5 km caldera truncating an earlier Pleistocene edifice. A late-Holocene explosive eruption formed a 1.6-km-wide summit crater that was subsequently largely filled by four lava domes, the latest of which forms the present 1953-m-high summit. Several of the lava domes were emplaced along the buried SE rim of the summit crater. More than ten cinder cones and lava domes were constructed on the flanks, particularly on the NW side. Only a few eruptions are known in historical time. The largest, in 1923, produced explosive activity and a lava flow down the SE flank that also partly flowed into the summit crater.