Elmenteita Badlands

sopka – Pyroclastic cone(s), Kenya, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Kde

Kenya, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Pyroclastic cone(s)

Nadmořská výška

2 126 m

Tektonické prostředí

Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

-0,546°, 36,249°

The Elmenteita Badlands, located between Lake Elmenteita (N) and Eburru volcano (S), is an area of pyroclastic cones and lava flows of varying ages. Large basaltic lava flows and ash cones post-date the 10,000-year-old high-stand of Lake Elmenteita (Thomson and Dodson, 1963).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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