O'a Caldera Volcano
Updated: Apr 25, 2024 05:59 GMT -
Caldera 2075 m / 6,808 ft
Ethiopia, 7.47°N / 38.58°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Ethiopia, 7.47°N / 38.58°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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O'a Caldera volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background
O'a caldera along the central Ethiopian Rift is the country's largest rift-valley caldera. The caldera forms the eastern portion of the 15 x 25 km dumbbell-shaped Lake O'a (also known as Lake Shalla). Formation of the caldera about 240,000 years ago was accompanied by the eruption of two ignimbrite deposits, the first of which was strongly welded. The only post-caldera activity consists of two pyroclastic cones north of the caldera, one silicic and the other basaltic, and a group of tuff rings, spatter cones, and lava flows of Holocene (perhaps as young as prehistorical) age near the SW shore of the lake. These were erupted along the Corbetti-Shalla segment of the Wonji Fault Belt, which extends north from Corbetti caldera. Fumarolic activity continues on all sides of the lake.---
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O'a Caldera Volcano Photos
View onto Cemoro Lawang village on the caldera rim (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
Very rare and big (2cm!) Olivine crystal at a rock of the Tengger caldera (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
The Tengger caldera in the morning (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
The Caldera Blanca is one of the most beautiful volcanic craters. (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
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