Massive Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, rises to the S above the Amboseli Game Preserve in Kenya. The 2.4 x 3.6 km caldera gives the ice-covered summit of Kibo an elongated, broad profile. Numerous smaller cones occupy a rift zone to the NW and SE of Kibo. Most of Kilimanjaro was constructed during the Pleistocene, but a group of nested summit craters are of apparent Holocene age.

Photo by Tom Jorstad, 1990 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Galleries: Stratovolcanoes

Keywords: stratovolcano

Kilimanjaro