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.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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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
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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
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Source Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
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1. Mount Marsabit (Wikipedia)
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Marsabit National Park is in the area.
Wikidata: Mount Marsabit
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