Panorama of Menengai Crater. (© Stefano & Michael Amani, kenyavacanze.org)
If our reader Cate hadn’t mentioned it in a comment I would never have thought of writing about Menengai Crater. It is one of the rift volcanoes in western central Kenya, within the wonderful and strange landscape of the Kenyan Rift valley. Continue Reading
Small lunar dome. The crater on the top is an impact crater. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/12/tiny-lunar-volcanoes/
Mining village below volcan Ollagüe. (© Marco Giometti, via Flickr)
It’s always good to have a spare volcano in your desert – for scenery, for tourists, for sulfur, for energy, whatever – as long as it doesn’t erupt. There are far more volcanoes in the world which have not erupted in the last 10 000 years than those considered presently active. With most of them we will never know whether they are truly extinct or just keep their heads down. And then there are those Continue Reading
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