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    Kikai Caldera (鬼界カルデラ, Kikai karudera) (alternatively Kikaiga-shima, Kikai Caldera Complex) is a massive, mostly submerged caldera up to 19 kilometres...
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    The Akahoya eruption or Kikai-Akahoya eruption was the strongest known volcanic eruption of the Kikai Caldera in Kyūshū, Japan occurring c. 5250 BCE....
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  • Look up Kikai or kikai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kikai is a Japanese name and may refer to: Kikai Caldera, Ōsumi Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture...
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  • (Hokkaido) Mashū (Hokkaido) Aso Caldera, Mount Aso (Kumamoto Prefecture) Kikai Caldera (Kagoshima Prefecture) Towada (Aomori Prefecture) Tazawa (Akita Prefecture)...
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    Kikaijima (redirect from Kikai-ga-shima)
    identified as Satsuma Iōjima of the Ōsumi Islands, which is part of Kikai Caldera. There are some controversies over which Kikaijima described in these...
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    volcanoes in Japan. These are the Aira Caldera, the Kikai Caldera, and the Aso Caldera. These giant calderas are remnants of past eruptions. Mount Aso...
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    northward from the undersea Kikai Caldera to the Ata South Caldera, Ata North Caldera (see Ata Caldera), the Aira Caldera associated with Kagoshima Bay...
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    Aso Caldera, and on to Mount Unzen and line that runs from Aso Caldera to the Kirishima volcanic group, Aira Caldera, Ata Caldera, and on to the Kikai Caldera...
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    of Iriomotejima, submarine volcano Iōtorishima, volcanic island Kikai Caldera, caldera Kuchinoshima Kuchinoerabujima Nakanoshima, volcanic island Suwanosejima...
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  • are three VEI-7 volcanoes in Japan. These are the Aira Caldera, Kikai Caldera and Aso Caldera. Mount Aso is the largest active volcano in Japan. Mount...
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    Iōjima (Kagoshima) (category Calderas of Japan)
    the Kikai Caldera, a stratovolcano rising from the ocean floor to 703.7 metres (2,309 ft) above sea level at its highest peak (Mount Iōdake). Kikai Caldera...
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    sulfur, is identified as Iōjima of the Ōsumi Islands, which is part of Kikai Caldera. Since China's invention of gunpowder made sulfur Japan's major export...
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    Fire. They are the eruptions at Fisher Caldera (Alaska, 8700 BC), Kurile Lake (Kamchatka, 6450 BC), Kikai Caldera (Japan, 5480 BC) and Mount Mazama (Oregon...
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    "Spatiotemporal evolution of a marine caldera-forming eruption, generating a low-aspect ratio pyroclastic flow, 7.3 ka, Kikai caldera, Japan: Implication from near-vent...
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    K-Tz tephra from the Kikai Caldera. There have been many more lesser eruptions. Some of the recent literature separates the caldera into a northern almost...
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    473–489. doi:10.5575/geosoc.2018.0038. The up is covered with Shikotsu caldera formation deposits. "Volcanic activities and eruption sequence of the large-scale...
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  • at Varna Necropolis, Bulgaria. 4300 BC: Akahoya eruption creates the Kikai Caldera and ends the earliest homogeneous Jomon culture in Japan. When the Jomon...
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    erupted Senta lava before about 7300 years ago erupting the Kikai-Akahoya tephra. The caldera-forming eruptions began 6400 years ago involving by the time...
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    experienced volcanic activity at Mount Aso, Aira Caldera in Kagoshima Prefecture and Kikai Caldera. There were four large series of Mount Aso volcanic...
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    The Maroa Caldera formed in the Northeast corner of the Whakamaru Caldera. The Whakamaru Caldera partially overlaps with the Taupō Caldera on the South...
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  • A bronze statue of Shunkan was erected in May, 1995. Part of the Kikai Caldera. Kikai, Kagoshima: Contains a grave and bronze statue of Shunkan. According...
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    island is of volcanic origin, being adjacent to the northern rim of the Kikai Caldera and predating the Akahoya eruption. It has an area of approximately...
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    Millennium BC, The Crater lake's eruption in 7th Millennium BC, The Kikai caldera's Akahoya eruption in 5th Millennium BC, The Thera or Santorini's eruption...
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    length. The island is an exposed lava dome associated with the submarine Kikai Caldera, a stratovolcano rising from the ocean floor. Shōwa Iōjima came into...
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    eruptions during the Holocene include Baitoushan, Crater Lake and Kikai. The caldera forming eruption commenced with a phreatoplinian eruption that generated...
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  • (Iōtorishima) AD 1968 Kikai Caldera 704 2310 30°47′20″N 130°18′29″E / 30.789°N 130.308°E / 30.789; 130.308 (Kikai Caldera) Satsuma-Iōjima: AD 2013...
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    and highly eroded portion of lava dome associated with the submarine Kikai Caldera, a stratovolcano rising from the ocean floor. It consists of three large...
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    A thin section of varve on display in Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum. Showing evidence of eruption of Kikai Caldera....
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    Plate. Aniakchak is a 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) wide caldera with a break to the northeast. The caldera contains Surprise Lake and many volcanic cones, maars...
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    Large bay of volcanic origin in the Hawaiian island O'ahu Kikai Caldera – A mostly submerged caldera in the Ōsumi Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Kolumbo...
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