Bir Borhut

Near the villages of Hleime and Al Ghayl, along the Wadi Hadhramout valley about 45 km from the coast of Yemen, is what appears to be a pyroclastic volcanic cone and extensive dark lava flows. Although Theodore Bent did not reach the volcano while traveling through the region in 1894, he described it as a solfataric area and source of brimstone. Arabic reports exist of an active volcano in eastern Hadramaut that erupted in the 10th century; emissions were reported in 1813 (Neumann van Padang, 1963). Geologic maps of the Arabian Peninsula show Quaternary mafic volcanic rocks in this area, which lies south and west of the Wadi al Masilah river valley. Small cones are present in the coastal lava fields, including a cone with two craters about 10 km NE of the town of Qusay'ir.