Ol Doinyo Lengai - Wikipedia
Ol Doinyo Lengai is an active volcano in northern Tanzania. It consists of a volcanic cone with two craters, the northern of which has erupted during historical time. Uniquely for volcanoes on Earth, it has erupted natrocarbonatite, [2] an unusually low temperature and highly fluid type of magma.
Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano - VolcanoDiscovery
2024年9月13日 · 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 | Active Volcano, Natron Lake, Maasai - Britannica
Ol Doinyo Lengai, active volcano, northern Tanzania, East Africa, located at the southern end of Lake Natron. It rises to an elevation of 9,442 feet (2,878 metres) and is one of the many volcanoes situated along the East African Rift System.
Ol Doinyo Lengai - Global Volcanism Program
2017年2月3日 · Ol Doinyo Lengai, located near the southern end of the East African Rift in Tanzania, is known for its unique, low temperature, carbonatitic lava.
Volcano Watch — World's Coolest Lava is in Africa
2003年4月17日 · Most volcanologists would agree that the answer to that question is Ol Doinyo Lengai, a volcano in northern Tanzania. From a distance, this handsome volcano doesn't look unusual. The symmetrical cone rises 2,200 m (7,200 ft) above the baking plains of the East African Rift Valley.
Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is …
2024年8月2日 · Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only known volcano on Earth that is actively erupting carbonatite magma — extremely runny magma that is saturated with alkali elements, such as calcium and...
Ol Doinyo Lengai - NASA Earth Observatory
2021年3月14日 · Ol Doinyo Lengai—known to the local Maasai people as the “Mountain of God”—is a stratovolcano in Tanzania with unique geological characteristics. This photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the symmetric volcano as well as canyons and lava flows formed by previous volcanic activity.
Ol Doinyo Lengai - NASA
2021年3月15日 · Ol Doinyo Lengai - known to the local Maasai people as the "Mountain of God" - is a stratovolcano in Tanzania with unique geological characteristics. This photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the symmetric volcano as well as canyons and lava flows formed by previous volcanic activity.
Report on Ol Doinyo Lengai (Tanzania) — September 2019
The symmetrical Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only volcano known to have erupted carbonatite tephras and lavas in historical time. The prominent stratovolcano, known to the Maasai as "The Mountain of God," rises abruptly above the broad plain south of Lake Natron in the Gregory Rift Valley.
Report on Ol Doinyo Lengai (Tanzania) — November 2021
The symmetrical Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only volcano known to have erupted carbonatite tephras and lavas in historical time. The prominent stratovolcano, known to the Maasai as "The Mountain of God," rises abruptly above the broad plain south of Lake Natron in the Gregory Rift Valley.