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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Korosi
Getang crater, also known as Kinyach, is on the N side of the Korosi summit area. The walls of the 600-m-wide, 120-m-deep crater expose trachytic lava flows. The youngest activity at Korosi, consisting of fissure-fed basaltic lava flows on the lower northern flanks, may have occurred only a few hundred to a few thousand years ago. Photo by Martin Smith, 1993 (copyright British Geological Survey, NERC).
Volcano Number:
222054
Volcano Name:
Korosi
Country:
Kenya
Volcano Type:
Shield
Elevation:
1446m
Tectonic Setting:
Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
1256
Pop. within 10km:
9641
Pop. within 30km:
85474
Pop. within 100km:
2051312
Latitude:
0.77
Longitude:
36.12
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The trachytic Korosi shield volcano lies at the N end of Lake Baringo. Unlike other rift valley volcanoes, it does not contain a summit caldera. Lava domes on the N flanks have fed trachytic lava flows. The major stage of volcanism spanned a period between 0.4 and 0.1 million years ago, and included the eruption of voluminous fluid basaltic lava flows and pyroclastic cone formation along a NNE-trending fissure cutting across the axis of the shield volcano. This was followed by the eruption of trachytic lava domes and pumice/scoria cones. The youngest activity, consisting of fissure-fed basaltic lava flows on the lower N flanks between Korosi and Paka, was probably coeval with the latest eruptions on Ol Kokwe to the S, which are only a few hundred to a few thousand years old (Dunkley et al. 1993). Fumaroles and hot steaming ground occur around the summit cones and NW flanks over an area of 30 km3.
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