Katunga

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Uganda, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Kde

Uganda, Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

1 707 m

Poloha

-0,471°, 30,191°

Katunga, an isolated tuff cone with associated lava flows located E of Lake Edward, is the southernmost feature of a N-S-trending chain of high-potassium foiditic volcanic fields in the Western Rift Valley of Uganda. It is the type locality of the rock type katungite, an olivine-melilitite. The undissected tuff cone was erupted through metamorphic basement rocks. Its rim and flanks are covered with ejected schists, and it contains a freshwater lake in its summit crater. Two lava flows traveled to the NE from vents on the N and NE flanks. The age of the cone is uncertain, but it is contemporaneous with tuff cones in the Bunyaruguru area to the north.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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