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Butajiri-Silti Field

Tipo
Campo volcánico
Altitud
2281 m
Última erupción
Desconocido
Butajiri-Silti Field
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Tipo
Campo volcánico
País
Etiopía
Región
África Oriental / Main Ethiopian Rift Volcanic Province
Altitud
2281 m
Coordenadas
8.050, 38.350
Última erupción
Desconocido
Contexto tectónico
Zona de rift / Corteza continental (> 25 km)
Forma volcánica
Grupo volcánico
Roca principal
Basalto / Picrobasalto
Resumen geológico

The Butajiri-Silti volcanic field consists of a large group of basaltic cinder cones, maars, and lava flows in an 80-km-long, NE-SW-trending area near the western margin of the Ethiopian Rift. At least 13 maars, many filled by lakes, are located near the town of Debre Zeit, SE of the capital city of Addis Ababa. The maars were erupted through Pleistocene rhyolitic lava flows and tuffs. Eruptions of the younger basaltic cinder cones were contemporaneous with those that produced the maars. Some of the lava flows associated with the cinder cones were considered very young by Di Paola (1972).

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