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Mount Marsabit

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Mountain type
  
Elevation
  
1,707 m

Last eruption
  
unknown

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Location
  
Similar
  
Mount Kulal, Namarunu, Mount Homa, Mount Kenya, Emuruangogolak

Marsabit is a 6300 kmĀ² basaltic shield volcano in Kenya, located 170 km east of the center of the East African Rift, in Marsabit County near the town of Marsabit. This was primarily built during the Miocene, but some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions have occurred more recently. At least two of the maars host crater lakes.

Map of Mount Marsabit, Kenya

The volcano is covered by dense forest. Marsabit National Park is in the area.

References

Mount Marsabit Wikipedia