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Hertali

Fissure vent · Ethiopia · 900m

The dark-colored area cutting across the center of this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top) is a series of basaltic lava flows erupted from fissure vents at Hertali. These flows lie at the S end of the Awash Plain, about 50 km NNE of Dofen volcano. The youthful morphology of the flows suggests a late Pleistocene to Holocene age. Numerous NNE-SSW-trending fissures of the Ethiopian Rift are visible.
The dark-colored area cutting across the center of this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top) is a series of basaltic lava flows erupted from fissure vents at Hertali. These flows lie at the S end of the Awash Plain, about 50 km NNE of Dofen volcano. The youthful morphology of the flows suggests a late Pleistocene to Holocene age. Numerous NNE-SSW-trending fissures of the Ethiopian Rift are visible. · Photo: NASA Landsat 7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov) · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Fissure vent
Country
Ethiopia
Region
Eastern Africa / Main Ethiopian Rift Volcanic Province
Elevation
900m
Coordinates
9.780, 40.330
Last eruption
Unknown
Tectonic setting
Rift zone / Intermediate crust (15-25 km)
Landform
Cluster
Major rock type
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Geological summary

Hertali is a basaltic fissure vent that fed lava flows at the S end of the Awash plain, about 50 km NNE of Dofen volcano. It was considered by Mohr and Wood (1976) to have been active during the late Pleistocene to Holocene on the basis of its youthful-looking morphology.

Eruption history

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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