By ExploreNow Editor, on April 5th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Volcanic field
Volcano Status: Radiocarbon
Last Known Eruption: 2000 BC
Summit Elevation: 3042 m 9,980 feet
Latitude: 12.95°N 12°57’0″N
Longitude: 24.27°E 24°16’0″E
Jebel Marra volcano is located in Darfur province, western Sudan, 200 km from the border with Chad, and about 100 km north of the town of Nyala. It is the second highest peak in Sudan. The Marra plateau covers 12,000 sq km from Tabago Hills to Tebella Plateau. The Marra plateau contains montane woodland.
The most prominent feature of the vast Jebel Marra volcanic field, located in the Darfur province of western Sudan, is the youthful Deriba caldera. The 5-km-wide, steep-walled caldera, located at the southern end of the volcanic field, was formed about 3500 years ago at the time of the eruption of voluminous airfall pumice and pyroclastic flows that traveled more than 30 km from the volcano.
 Kutrum Jebel Marra (Mike Bravo) Click Here For The Rest Of Jebel Marra, Sudan
Originally posted 2010-10-29 08:10:54.
By ExploreNow Editor, on March 30th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Cinder cones
Volcano Status: Radiocarbon
Last Known Eruption: 850 AD ± 50 years
Summit Elevation: 670? m 2,198 feet
Latitude: 18.33°N * 18°20’0″N
Longitude: 32.75°E 32°45’0″E
Bayuda Volcano is located in the Bayuda Desert of NE Sudan, 300 km north of of Khartoum. The volcano contains cinder cones, lava flows, and explosion craters.
The main volcanic field is 48 km long and 11 km wide, extending in a NW direction from 18.28 N, 32.92 E. to 18.43 N to 32.50 E.
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Originally posted 2010-10-15 08:11:06.
By ExploreNow Editor, on March 29th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Historical
Last Known Eruption: 1861
Summit Elevation: 1625 m 5,331 feet
Latitude: 13.58°N 13°35’0″N
Longitude: 41.808°E 41°48’30″E
Dubbi, located east of the Erta Ale Range and south of the crystalline basement rocks of the Danakil Alps, is a large volcanic massif that rises to 1625 m above the western shore of the Red Sea. About 20 small cinder cones are located at the summit, and extensive basaltic lava fields to the north and NE, known as the Edd lava field, cover an area of 2700 sq km and reach the Red Sea coast. The two most-recent eruptive centers are fissure systems that extend NW-SE and NNE-SSW. The former produced lava flows that reached the Red Sea in 1400 AD. The second created 19 small craters at the summit in 1861. Ash fell more than 300 km from the volcano. Two villages were destroyed and more than 100 persons were killed during Africa’s largest eruption in historical time. Lava flows from the 1861 eruption traveled as far as 22 km and reached the coast.
 Satellite view of the Dubbi Volcano Click Here For The Rest Of Dubbi, Eritrea, Africa
Originally posted 2010-08-28 03:17:39.
By ExploreNow Editor, on March 28th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Scoria cones
Volcano Status: Holocene
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: Unknown
Latitude: 14.57°N 14°34’0″N
Longitude: 25.85°E 25°51’0″E
The Kutum basaltic volcanic field in the northern Dafur area of western Sudan, is located SW of the larger Meidob volcanic field. As with other Saharan volcanic fields, Kutum (also known as the Tagabo Hills or Berti Hills) contains very well-preserved cones, lava flows, and explosion craters. They were considered to be of late-Pleistocene or even Holocene age. Franz et al., however, assigned only Tertiary age ranges for rocks from Tagabo Hills.
Originally posted 2010-10-29 07:45:52.
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