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.
Taken on 19
May
2011
Submitted on 01 March 2012
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