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Bora-Bericha-Tullu Moye

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  • 8.2114°N
  • 39.0812°E

  • 2,345 m
    7,694 ft

  • 221250
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports available for Bora-Bericha-Tullu Moye.

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Eruptive History

There is data available for 3 confirmed Holocene eruptive periods.

1900 (?) Confirmed Eruption (Explosive / Effusive) VEI: 1

Episode 1 | Eruption (Explosive / Effusive) Wonji Fault Belt, SE of Lake Koka
1900 (?) - Unknown Evidence from Observations: Reported
 Two references in Gouin (1979) describe an eruption in about 1900 CE. The first (p. 93) states "...the most recent instance of fissural activity dates from the early 1900s; it is a flow of pitchstone ejected along the Wonji fault belt a few kilometers southeast of Lake Galilee (Koka). Eyewitnesses are still alive and were interviewed by Dakin and Morton in 1975 (personal communication)." The second (p. 105) reads "...about 1900 or so, pitchstone was ejected from a fissure on the rift floor, southeast of the Koka reservoir (N 08.3°, E 39.4°). The 'rain of hot grains' as witnesses described the eruption, destroyed crops many kilometers away...." The location specified by Gouin in the second account is well to the east of the rift zone, and a point along the rift zone "several km SE of Lake Koka" would appear to be located somewhere near Tullu Moye.

List of 5 Events for Episode 1 at Wonji Fault Belt, SE of Lake Koka

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index) VEI 1
   - - - -    - - - - Explosion
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow
   - - - -    - - - - Tephra
   - - - -    - - - - Property Damage

1775 ± 25 years Confirmed Eruption (Explosive / Effusive) VEI: 0

Episode 1 | Eruption (Explosive / Effusive) Giano lava flow
1775 ± 25 years - Unknown Evidence from Correlation: Anthropology
 Legends suggest that the large silicic lava flow at Giano was erupted from regional fissures about two centuries ago (Bizouard and Di Paola, 1978, citing geological map in Di Paola, 1976).

List of 2 Events for Episode 1 at Giano lava flow

Start Date End Date Event Type Event Remarks
   - - - -    - - - - VEI (Explosivity Index) VEI 0
   - - - -    - - - - Lava flow

0760 ± 36 years Confirmed Eruption (Explosive / Effusive)  

Episode 1 | Eruption (Explosive / Effusive) Bericha, Ba-P9
0760 ± 36 years - Unknown Evidence from Isotopic: 14C (calibrated)
 Tephra fall and PDC deposits with a maximum thickness of 2.5 m, as described by Tadesse et al. (2022): "Cream-colored matrix-supported and undulated beds in the bottom half. Parallel bedded, well-sorted pumice lapilli breccia on the top." This is the youngest deposit at Bericha.

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Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Bora-Bericha-Tullu Moye in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

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