Oldoinyo Lengai summit view
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Oldoinyo Lengai summit view

by Jaap Berghuijs, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

This majestic view from the summit of Oldoinyo Lengai offers a peek into the only active carbonatite volcano in the world. From up here, the 400 m tall rift escarpment, evaporites of Lake Natron and several monogenetic volcanic cones seem only miniscule.

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