Ol Doinyo Lengai, active volcano, aerial view across Lake Natron, Tanzania
Ol Doinyo Lengai ( m, ft) is a volcano located south of Lake Natron. It is part of the volcanic system of the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa. Ol Doinyo Lengai means Mountain of God in the language of the native Maasai people. Ol Doinyo Lengai is unique among volcanoes in that it produces natrocarbonatite lava, an unusual type of carbonatite, whereas most lavas are rich in silicate minerals. Lake Natron is a soda lake of variable extent situated in the bottom of the Rift Valley basin. It is surrounded by Rift Valley escarpments and volcanic mountains whereof the mountain of Oldonyo Lengai in the south is still active. The area around Lake Natron is often described as having a desolate and almost lunar beauty. It is the only regularly breeding area for Lesser Flamingos in East Africa and furthermore, it offers feeding and roosting opportunities for an estimated 100,000 individuals of other species of water birds many of them Palaearctic migrants. In the lake margins springs and a few perennial streams are a source of freshwater for Maasai, cattle, wildlife and flamingos that co-exists in this huge lake basin.
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Photo credit: © Ulrich Doering / Alamy / Afripics
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