Kilimanjaro trekking

Kilimanjaro Vulkan

Massiver Kilimanjaro, den höchsten Berg Afrikas, besteht aus drei großen Stratovulkane entlang einer NW-SE Trend gebaut.

Beschreibung:

Massive Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, consists of three large stratovolcanoes constructed along a NW-SE trend. The ice-capped, 5895-m-high summit towers 5200 m above the surrounding plains. The older cone of Shira forms the broad WNW shoulder of Kilimanjaro, and the extensively dissected Mawenzi forms a prominent, sharp-topped peak on the ESE flank. Numerous satellitic cones occupy a rift zone to the NW and SE of Kibo, the central stratovolcano. A 2.4 x 3.6 km caldera gives the summit of Kibo an elongated, broad profile. Most of Kilimanjaro was constructed during the Pleistocene, but a group of youthful-looking nested summit craters are of apparent Holocene age.

Source: Smithsonian GVP

Kilimanjaro Fotos:

Panorama des Kraters des Kilimanjaro (Photo: Paul Nicholson)