Oldoinyo Lengai summit view
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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Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
15.1 MB
Width
7094 px
Height
2820 px
Aspect
3547:1410
Brand
Canon D-Slr
Model
EOS 1000D
Exposure
21 mm f/9 1/200 s ISO 100
Taken
19 May 2011
Coordinates
-2.7627, 35.9171
Tint
Black
Submitted
1 March 2012
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