Kenya · Pyroclastic cone
Segererua Plateau
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone
- Elevation
- 699m
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone
- Country
- Kenya
- Region
- Eastern Africa / Kenyan Rift Volcanic Province
- Elevation
- 699m
- Coordinates
- 1.570, 37.900
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Cluster
- Major rock type
- Basalt / Picro-basalt
Geological summary
A large number of late-Pleistocene to Holocene basaltic cones, lava flows, and maars occur along a roughly 50-km-long NE-SW trend on the Segererua and Rusarus Plateaus and areas to the SW.
Excerpt from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Read the full summary on GVP →
Eruption history
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No eruption records available.
Nearby volcanoes
External links
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