Mountain of God
by Jaap Berghuijs, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Considering how Oldoinyo Lengai - the Mountain of God - towers over northern Tanzania's savanna, it is no surprise that the Masai people consider this active volcano sacred.
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- Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (345)
- Field (2822)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (901)
Location
- Africa (327)
- Eastern Africa (104)
- United Republic of Tanzania (19)
- Exact location (-2.6084 W, 35.9631 N)
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3888 × 2592 px;
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Canon D-Slr EOS 1000D
Taken on 4
May
2011
Submitted on 1 March 2012
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Jaap Berghuijs (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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