Adwa Volcano
Updated: 4 mayo 2024 06:43 GMT -
Stratovolcano 1733 m / 5,686 ft
Ethiopia, 10.07°N / 40.84°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Ethiopia, 10.07°N / 40.84°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Erupciones del volcán Adwa: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background
Adwa, also known as Aabida, Amoissa, or Dabita, is a stratovolcano in the southern Afar area immediately east of Ayelu volcano. Adwa is younger than the vegetated Ayelu and is a stratovolcano with a 4 x 5 km caldera that originated following eruption of voluminous ignimbrites. A small 2.5-km-wide caldera cuts a trachytic dome extruded in the older caldera. Scoria cones are located on the floor of a circular summit caldera and on its NW and SW flanks. Extensive young basaltic lava flows cover the flanks of Adwa and overlap a sedimentary plain to the SE. Many fumaroles occur within the caldera of Adwa. Satellitic pyroclastic cones and lava domes were considered to be only a few hundred years old (Mohr 1980, pers. comm.).---
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Adwa Volcano Photos
Una gran columna de ceniza se eleva desde el Valle del Bove: una parte del flujo de lava emplazado en la empinada cabecera occidental de la depresión se ha derrumbado y d...
Alta columna de ceniza que se eleva desde el Valle del Bove del Etna, donde un nuevo flujo de lava que desciende por la empinada pared occidental de las depresiones inter...
Alta explosión estromboliana en el cráter New SE y la pared oriental cubierta de nieve del Valle del Bove a la luz de la luna. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
La cabecera sur del Valle del Bove (Photo: Emanuela / VolcanoDiscovery Italia)