Ol Doinyo Eburru
Eburru, Ol Doinyo
Complex volcano · Kenya · 2856m
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Country
- Kenya
- Region
- Eastern Africa Volcanic Regions / Kenyan Rift Volcanic Province
- Elevation
- 2856m
- Coordinates
- -0.650, 36.220
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Rhyolite
Geological summary
Eburru volcano is elongated E-W perpendicular to the Gregory Rift NW of Lake Naivasha. The main edifice is eroded, but young partly vegetated rhyolitic domes occur on the E flank and are probably of Holocene age (Thompson and Dodson, 1963). Pleistocene phonolitic and trachytic lava flows are overlain by rhyolitic obsidian lava flows forming much of the N and NE slopes of the main massif. A prominent late-Pleistocene rhyolitic lava flow from a SE-flank vent extends almost to Lake Naivasha. Extensive fumarolic activity occurs at cinder cones and craters constructed along dominantly N-S faults cutting the massif.
From Wikipedia
Ol Doinyo Eburru is an active complex of volcanoes in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya to the northwest of Lake Naivasha. It is being exploited for geothermal energy. Soysambu Conservancy is located to the north of the massif, between Lake Elmenteita to the east and Lake Nakuru to the west.
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Eruption history
Detailed timeline
No eruption records available.
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