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Description: The long chain of pyroclastic cones and lava flows extending East-West across this Landsat image is the Assab volcanic field near the Red Sea coast in southern Eritrea. This spectacular range of basaltic cinder cones and associated lava flows covers a 55 x 90 km area, and flows reached the Red Sea along a broad front. The vents of the Assab volcanic field were constructed along a broad E-W-trending line that extends to the coastal city of Assab, out of view to right.
Title: Assab volcanic field
Credit: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0201-125&volpage=photos&photo=111076
Author: NASA Landsat image (courtesy of Hawaii Synergy Project, Univ. of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology)
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