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Emuruangogolak
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Emuruangogolak is an active shield volcano straddling the Gregory Rift in Kenya, in Eastern Africa. It has a caldera on its summit. The last known eruption was a trachyte flow which occurred in 1910. Steam vents and fumarolic activity continues from fissures within the caldera and along the flanks of the volcano. Several maar lakes exist in the rift valley adjacent to the volcano. The volcano's summit is at an elevation of , and its formation is calculated to have been 38,000 years ago.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_scale, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Active volcanoes, Holocene shield volcanoes and Pleistocene shield volcanoes.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- shield volcano
- Country
- Kenya
- Elevation
- 1328
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- time period
- Pleistocene
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Emuruangogolak is an active shield volcano straddling the Gregory Rift in Kenya, in Eastern Africa. It has a caldera on its summit. The last known eruption was a trachyte flow which occurred in 1910. Steam vents and fumarolic activity continues from fissures within the caldera and along the flanks of the volcano. Several maar lakes exist in the rift valley adjacent to the volcano. The volcano's summit is at an elevation of , and its formation is calculated to have been 38,000 years ago.
==See also== List of volcanoes in Kenya
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emuruangogolak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations