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Geological Formation

Mount Marsabit

Volcanic Formations

Marsabit is a basaltic shield volcano covering about 6,300 square kilometers in Kenya's Marsabit County, near the town of Marsabit, roughly 170 kilometers east of the center of the East African Rift. It was built mainly during the Miocene, though some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions occurred more recently, and at least two of its maars now hold crater lakes. This entity documents Mount Marsabit specifically as a geological formation, a large basaltic shield volcano east of the main rift whose maars hold crater lakes.

Facts
Classification
Protected Status
National Park or Reserve 1
Connections

Associated With

Miocene, Eras
Source Mount Marsabit (Wikipedia)

Caused By

Orogeny, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
Volcanism, Processes
Source Mount Marsabit (Wikipedia)

In Discipline

Geomorphology, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Kenya

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
Sources
1. Mount Marsabit (Wikipedia)
  • Lead sentence
    Marsabit National Park is in the area.
  • Associated With: Miocene, Lead paragraph
    This was primarily built during the Miocene, but some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions have occurred more recently.
  • Associated With: Miocene, Lead, age Miocene
    This was primarily built during the Miocene, but some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions have occurred more recently.
  • Caused By: Volcanism, Lead, process Volcanism
    This was primarily built during the Miocene, but some lava flows and explosive maar-forming eruptions have occurred more recently.
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Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
Wikidata Q1106320, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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