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Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano (Tanzania) activity update: spattering and lava flows of natrocarbonatite lava inside the summit crater

Sunday, Dec 09, 2012

Spattering and lava flows of carbonatite lava inside the deep summit crater of Lengai have been recently observed by climbers. The crater which formed during explosive activity in 2008 is gradually being filled by spatter cones and small lava flows. [more]

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano (Tanzania), activity update: natrocarbonatite lava at the crater floor

Monday, Oct 11, 2010

Our friend Michael Dalton-Smith flew over Lengai 10 Oct 2010 and snapped a few shots of the crater. There were some recent small lava flows inside the new crater. Also there we signs that new cone has had some more minor collapses on the inside. He could not tell 100%, but there looks like a small lava lake. ... [more]

Volcanoes of Tanzania (9 volcanoes)

Ol Doinyo Lengai (Stratovolcano)	Ol Doinyo Lengai, a symmetrical, steep classical stratovolcano rises majestically about 2000m from the East Africal Rift Valley depression to a summit elevation of 2890 m. To the Maassai people, it is home of God, which is also the meaning of the name. Ol Doinyo Lengai is the onl... [more]

Kilimanjaro (Stratovolcano)	Massive Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, consists of three large stratovolcanoes constructed along a NW-SE trend. [more]

Meru (Stratovolcano)	[more]

Igwisi Hills (Tuff cones)	[more]

SW Usangu Basin (Lava domes)	[more]

Izumbwe-Mpoli (Pyroclastic cones)	[more]

Ngozi (Caldera)	[more]

Rungwe (Stratovolcano)	[more]

Kyejo (Stratovolcano)	[more]

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