Ngaoundere Plateau

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

Kde

Cameroon, Northern Africa Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

1 230 m

Poloha

7,250°, 13,670°

The Ngaoundere volcanic field is located within a larger late-Miocene region of plateau basalts, plug domes and a single large basanitic-to-trachytic stratovolcano, Nganha. Quaternary volcanism is situated east of Ngaoundere and Wakwa, and consists of scoria cones and lava flows, maars, and tuff cones. A single Potassium-Argon date of 0.9 million years ago has been obtained from a lava flow east of Wakwa, although some volcanoes are possibly of Holocene age (Vincent 1992, pers. comm.). The most recent eruptive activity originated from a chain of cinder cones aligned in a WNW-ESE direction.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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