Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Klyuchevskoy shows some new features

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Klyuchevskoy has already had a busy year and now we have some recent photos showing a lava flow that is snaking down the side of the volcano. The website with the lava flow image has a pile of other great eruption photos of Klyuchevskoy over the last couple of years and well worth the time to look through them all – the volcano is definitely one of those classic arc volcanoes in both shape and activity.

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