Eburru, Ol Doinyo

sopka – Complex, Kenya, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Kde

Kenya, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Complex

Nadmořská výška

2 856 m

Tektonické prostředí

Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

-0,650°, 36,220°

Eburru volcano is elongated E-W perpendicular to the Gregory Rift NW of Lake Naivasha. The main edifice is eroded, but young partly vegetated rhyolitic domes occur on the E flank and are probably of Holocene age (Thompson and Dodson, 1963). Pleistocene phonolitic and trachytic lava flows are overlain by rhyolitic obsidian lava flows forming much of the N and NE slopes of the main massif. A prominent late-Pleistocene rhyolitic lava flow from a SE-flank vent extends almost to Lake Naivasha. Extensive fumarolic activity occurs at cinder cones and craters constructed along dominantly N-S faults cutting the massif.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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