By ExploreNow Editor, on March 29th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Holocene
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: 4127 m 13,540 feet
Latitude: 1.38°S 1°23’0″S
Longitude: 29.67°E 29°40’0″E
Muhavura volcano rises to 4127 m at the NE end of the Virunga Range. It is a relatively youthful stratovolcano with a small 40-m-wide lake in its summit crater. The 3474-m-high Gahinga (Mgahinga) volcano is joined to Muhavura on the west by a broad saddle. The two volcanoes have produced basanitic-to-trachyandesitic lavas. A small parasitic crater has been recently active, but the age of the latest eruption of Muhavura is not known.
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Originally posted 2010-08-25 03:50:25.
By ExploreNow Editor, on February 10th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Tuff cones
Volcano Status: Radiocarbon
Last Known Eruption: 2120 BC ± 100 years
Summit Elevation: 1615 m 5,298 feet
Latitude: 0.70°N * 0°42’0″N
Longitude: 30.25°E 30°15’0″E
The carbonatite lavas and tuffs of the Fort Portal volcanic field in Uganda, NE of Mount Ruwenzori between Lake Albert and Lake Edward, consists of a group of tuff cones and maars covering an area of about 145 sq km. About 50 volcanic vents, some of which now contain crater lakes, were erupted through basement rocks of Precambrian gneiss in an WSW-ENE-trending area north of the town of Fort Portal.
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Originally posted 2010-10-25 11:33:43.
By ExploreNow Editor, on January 22nd, 2012%
Volcano Type: Maars
Volcano Status: Holocene
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: 1554 m 5,098 feet
Latitude: 0.20°S * 0°12’0″S
Longitude: 30.08°E 30°5’0″E
The late-Plestocene to Holocene Bunyaruguru volcanic field, also known as the Kichwambe volcanic field, straddles the equator along the eastern side of the Western Rift Valley, south of Lake George. The Bunyaruguru volcanic field contains more than 130 maars, 27 of which contain lakes with water ranging from fresh to saline. Friable calcareous volcanic tuffs are inter-bedded with Pleistocene and Recent sediments. Only a few foiditic lava flows are found in the volcanic field. Although no dated eruptions are known, Reece noted that volcanic activity probably continued into historical times.
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Originally posted 2010-10-25 11:33:40.
By ExploreNow Editor, on January 11th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Cinder cones
Volcano Status: Holocene?
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: 2440 m 8,005 feet
Latitude: 1.23°S * 1°14’0″S
Longitude: 29.72°E 29°43’0″E
The Bufumbira volcanic field in SW Uganda consists of a group of about 40 cinder cones lying north of the large stratovolcanoes of the NE part of the Virunga Mountains. The cinder cones occur in clusters and were erupted along lineaments. They are typically breached on one side by lava flows. Their age is not known precisely, but they are considered younger than the stratovolcanoes of the Virunga Range, some of which are Holocene in age. The Bufumbira rocks are noted for their unusual ultrapotassic chemistry.
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Originally posted 2010-10-25 11:33:46.
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