{"id":25608,"date":"2024-08-05T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25608"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:43:06","slug":"ol-doinyo-lengai-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ol-doinyo-lengai-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located in <strong>northern Tanzania<\/strong>, at the <strong>southern end<\/strong> of<strong> Lake Natron.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is known to the local <strong>Maasai<\/strong> people as the \u201c<strong>Mountain of God<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is an active <strong>stratovolcano <\/strong>with unique geological characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>It rises to an elevation of 9,442 feet (2,878 metres) and is one of the many volcanoes situated <strong>along the East African Rift System.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>contains basalts<\/strong> rich in sodium and potassium, and is so alkaline that its lavas resemble washing soda.<\/li>\n<li>The volcano has <strong>more than one active centre<\/strong> and most of the recent eruptions were from its northern crater.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is it a rare volcano?<\/strong> This volcano is the <strong>only one existing on Earth<\/strong> which has an <strong>actively erupting<\/strong> and extremely <strong>runny carbonatite magma.<\/strong> The magma is saturated with alkali elements, like calcium and sodium and is poor in silica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Details of the study<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the new study, the crater&#8217;s <strong>upper slopes have started sinking<\/strong> since 2013 and the likely cause for this sinking volcano was the <strong>deflating magma reservoir<\/strong>, which is located 3,300 feet (1,000 m) under the volcano.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Stratovolcano?<\/h3>\n<p>The stratovolcano is a tall, steep, and cone-shaped type of volcano. Unlike flat shield volcanoes like in Hawaii, they have higher peaks. At the peak, stratovolcanoes usually have a small crater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/this-volcano-with-continuous-eruption-of-the-magma-is-sinking-inside-earth-heres-why-747008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This volcano, with continuous eruption of magma, is sinking inside Earth. Here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano is located in northern Tanzania, at the southern end of Lake Natron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}