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Mount Chilalo

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The mountain has an elliptical base (about 30 by 20 kilometers), whose major axis lies NNE-SSW or parallel to the predominant tectonic trend. Chilalo rises with gentle slopes for more than 1500 meters from the top of the plateau. At the summit, there is a large, almost circular
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One authority identifies Mount Chilalo as a late Trap Series volcano. The geologist Erik Nilsson claimed to have identified traces of
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about 6 kilometers in diameter, whose southern rim is considered to be the mountain's summit. Mount Chilalo last erupted in the
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down to about 3400 meters, which he dated to the "Last Pluvial Period". Although this mountain is located south of the
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to the north and Mount Kaka to the south, it is considered, geologically speaking, part of the
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Chilalo is located in Ethiopia
Elevation
Prominence
Coordinates
7°55′N 39°16′E / 7.917°N 39.267°E / 7.917; 39.267
Arsi Zone
Oromia Region
Ethiopia
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
silicic
stratovolcano
Ethiopia
a.s.l.
Arsi Zone
Oromia Region
Arsi Mountains National Park
Hitosa
Tiyo
woreda
07°55′N 39°16′E / 7.917°N 39.267°E / 7.917; 39.267
caldera
Pleistocene
glaciation
Mount Kaka
East African Rift
Mount Gugu
Ethiopian Highlands

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