Fentale
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| height | 2007 m | |
| location | Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates | 8 ° 58 '30 " N , 39 ° 55' 48" E | |
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| rock | Andesite, trachyte and rhyolite | |
| Last eruption | 1820 | |
The Fentale even Fantale called, is a large stratovolcano , located at the north end of the Ethiopian part of the East African Rift is.
For the most part, it is made of rhyolitic obsidian , which contains smaller amounts of tuff.
Philip Briggs described the Fentale as crowned by a 350 meter deep crater. Briggs continues:
"Is responsible for the bleak hundred-year-old lava flows that cross the road immediately west of Metehara, and its steam vents can sometimes be seen displaying from the surrounding plains at night."
"[The volcano] is responsible for the hundreds of year old lava flows that cross the road west of Metehara and its steam vents can sometimes come off the plains in the area at night."
An eruption in the 13th century destroyed an Abyssinian city and a church in the south. In 1820 basaltic lava was ejected from a crevice in the south of the volcano that is 4 kilometers long. The lava also flowed into the caldera .
169,357 people live within a radius of 30 kilometers.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Smithsonian Institution: Global Volcanism Program. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 9, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1164103 Welded tuff. In: Department of Mineral Sciences Collections NMNH. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Chalfont St Peters: Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide , 3rd edition . 2002, p. 335 ( asco.org [PDF; accessed on September 13, 2013]).
- ^ David Buxton, Travels in Ethiopia , second edition (London: Benn, 1957), p. 131
