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Mount Fentale

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Philip Briggs describes Mount Fentale as being crowned by a 350 m (1,150 ft) deep crater. Briggs concludes that this volcano "is responsible for the bleak hundred-year-old lava flows that cross the road immediately west of
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states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842. By questioning the natives, Harris concluded that the most recent eruptions had taken place 30 years before his arrival.
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The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th-century explorer
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A vertical aerial photo of the Fentale volcanic complex
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Elevation
Listing
Volcanoes of Ethiopia
Coordinates
8°58′30″N 39°55′48″E / 8.975°N 39.93°E / 8.975; 39.93
Fentale is located in Ethiopia
Oromia Region
Ethiopia
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
stratovolcano
Awash National Park
Oromia Region
Ethiopia
Fentale
woreda
Metehara
William Cornwallis Harris
David Buxton
List of stratovolcanoes



"Fentale"
Global Volcanism Program
Smithsonian Institution
"Topographic map of Mount Fentale"
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