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List Of Volcanoes In Cameroon ...
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Cameroon. References {{Global Volcanism Program Cameroon Volcanoes A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont Manengoumba3
Mont may refer to: Places * Mont., an abbreviation for Montana, a U.S. state * Mont, Belgium (other), several places in Belgium * Mont, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in France * Mont, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in France * Mont, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in France Other uses * Mont (food), a category of Burmese snacks and desserts * Mont (surname) * Mont., botanical author abbreviation of Camille Montagne (1784-1866), French military physician and botanist * ''Seawise Giant'', the largest ship in the world, later renamed MV ''Mont'' for her final journey * Menthu or Mont, a deity in Egyptian mythology * M.O.N.T, South Korean boy group See also * Le Mont (other) * Monts (other) * Monte (other) Monte may refer to: Places Argentina * Argentine Monte, an ecoregion * Monte Desert * Monte Partido, a ''partido'' in Buenos Aires Province Italy * Monte Bregagno * Monte Cassino * Montecorvino (other) * Montefalcione Portugal * Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcanoes
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, deep in the Earth. This results in hotspot volcanism, of which the Hawaiian hotspot is an example. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''Cameroon'' in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographic Coordinates
The geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or ellipsoidal coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on the Earth as latitude and longitude. It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system, the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in the EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. History The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who composed his now-lost ''Geography'' at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Cameroon
Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the South West region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its indigenous name ''Mongo ma Ndemi'' ("Mountain of Greatness"). It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa, the fourth-most prominent peak in Africa, and the 31st-most prominent in the world. The mountain is part of the area of volcanic activity known as the Cameroon Volcanic Line, which also includes Lake Nyos, the site of a disaster in 1986. The most recent eruption occurred on February 3, 2012. Description Mount Cameroon is one of Africa's largest volcanoes, rising to above the coast of west Cameroon. It rises from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit, which is cold, windy, and occasionally dusted with snow. The massive steep-sided volcano of dominantly basaltic-to-trachybasaltic composition forms a volc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Manengouba
Mount Muanenguba (also spelled Manenguba or Mwanenguba) is a volcano in the Southwest Province of Cameroon. The Manenguba shrew and endemic vegetal species are native to the mountain. The area is featured in the documentary ''The Mists of Mwanenguba'' with botanist Martin Cheek Martin Roy Cheek (born 1960) is a botanist and taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. File:Mont-Manengouba 03.jpg File:Mont-Manengouba 15.jpg File:Mont-Manengouba 10.jpg File:Mont-Manengouba 13.jpg File:Mont-Manengouba 11.jpg File:Mont Manengouba - Nkongsamba.jpg, Mount Manengouba from Nkongsamba References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngaoundere Plateau
The Ngaoundéré Plateau is a highland area in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. It contains Tchabal Nganha, a large volcano, and many other recent volcanic structures. Location The plateau is between the forested south and savannah north of Cameroon. Ngaoundéré, the capital of the Adamawa region, is located on the plateau. It lies over the Ngaoundere fault zone, which was reactivated in the Cretaceous. The Ngaoundere fault belongs the Central African Fault Zone. In this region the asthenosphere upwells from a depth of about 190 km to about 120 km in a relatively narrow belt. Formation The plateau was formed by flows of basaltic lavas that filled two broad valleys eroded into the Precambrian basement, followed by further flows that built up the plateau. There are many trachyte and phonolite plugs across the plateau, and lines of cinder cones from the most recent eruptions. The plateau contains Tchabal Nganha, a large stratovolcano of basanitic to trachytic co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oku Volcanic Field
Oku or OKU may refer to: *Oku, Cameroon, subdivision in the Northwest Region of Cameroon ** Lake Oku, a crater lake on the Bamenda Plateau in the Northwest Region of Cameroon ** Mount Oku, the largest volcano in the Oku Massif, in the Cameroon Volcanic Line *Oku language, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon *Oku people (Sierra Leone), an ethnic group of Yoruba descent in Sierra Leone. *Ökü, a village in Azerbaijan *Oku District, Okayama, a former district located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan **Oku, Okayama, a former town in the district, merged with other towns to create the city of Setouchi *Oku (surname), a common Japanese surname *Princess Ōku (661–702), a Japanese princess during the Asuka period in Japanese history *OKU, IATA Airport Code for Mokuti Lodge Airport in Namibia *Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, a province in South Sumatra, Indonesia See also *Oku Station (other) Oku Station may refer to: * Oku Station (Tokyo) - (尾久駅) A station connected with To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tchabal Nganha
Tchabal Nganha is a stratovolcano on the Ngaoundere Plateau, a highland area in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon. Location Tchabal Nganha is a large composite volcano located within the Ngaoundere volcanic field in the east of the Adamawa Plateau. It is the only stratovolcano in the field. Nganha rises about above the surrounding plateau to a height of at Doïtaïa Mounts. The Adamawa plateau is an asymmetrical Horst (geology), horst bounded by N70°E fault (geology), faults and tilted to the south. The plateau has a Precambrian metamorphic rock, metamorphic basement (geology), basement that is intruded by granite and syenite plutons from the Paleozoic. It is partly covered by volcanic formations from the Cenozoic to Recent ages. The crust (geology), crust is thick below the plateau. Although considered by many geologists to be part of the Cameroon line, the silicic volcanism of the Ngaoundere Plateau is younger (11 to 9 million years old) than silicic volcanism in the Western Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Volcanoes
These lists cover volcanoes by type and by location. Type * List of extraterrestrial volcanoes * List of largest volcanic eruptions * List of shield volcanoes * List of stratovolcanoes * List of subglacial volcanoes * List of submarine volcanoes * List of volcanoes by elevation Location Africa * List of volcanoes in Algeria * List of volcanoes in Cameroon * List of volcanoes in Cape Verde *List of volcanoes in Chad * List of volcanoes in the Comoros *List of volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * List of volcanoes in Djibouti *List of volcanoes in Equatorial Guinea * List of volcanoes in Eritrea *List of volcanoes in Ethiopia *List of volcanoes in Kenya * List of volcanoes in Libya *List of volcanoes in Madagascar *In Nigeria all the volcanoes are in the Biu Plateau *List of volcanoes in Réunion *List of volcanoes in Rwanda *São Tomé and Príncipe has only one volcano, Pico de São Tomé * List of volcanoes in South Africa *List of volcanoes in Sudan *List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcanoes Of Cameroon
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, deep in the Earth. This results in hotspot volcanism, of which the Hawaiian hotspot is an example. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
