Yellow-green tinted Dallol

Dallol Volcano is a crater-shaped volcano located in the Danakil Desert, Afar Region, Ethiopia. This landform was formed by hydrothermal activity during the Miocene period, approximately 23 million to 5 million years ago. The crater is about -45 to 50 meters below sea level, making it the world's lowest known land-based volcano crater. Because the basaltic magma is at a shallow depth of about 20 m below the surface, several salt, and acidic springs gush out in the vicinity, and conical salt masses formed by geysers can be seen.

Yellow-green tinted Dallol 
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Dallol  Volcano is a crater-shaped volcano located in the Danakil Desert, Afar Region, Ethiopia. This landform was formed by hydrothermal activity during the Miocene period, approximately 23 million to 5 million years ago. The crater is about -45 to 50 meters below sea level, making it the world's lowest known land-based volcano crater. Because the basaltic magma is at a shallow depth of about 20 m below the surface, several salt, and acidic springs gush out in the vicinity, and conical salt masses formed by geysers can be seen.

The word "Dallol" means "dissolution" or "collapse" in the Afar language. In addition to the greenish-acidic ponds, the area is a colorful, desolate, unearthly scene composed of acidic iron, sulfur, and salt.
Location: Dallo, Northeastern Ethiopia, February 2015
For more information:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karum
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Title:  To Afar Triangle in Ethiopia: one of the harshest places on Earth

A new adventure has begun; to meet the harshest nature on earth; to meet the lives of Ethiopian peoples living in the harshest places.


In 1974, several hundred pieces of fossilized human bones more than 3 million years old were found near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, and it was found to be a female skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, and she was named "Lucy".  

The broad-leaved forests that provided fruits: Lucy's main foods, had decreased drastically with the advent of the Sahara Desert and the Great Rift Valley, which began forming about 10 million years ago; it was necessary to descend to the ground and move between the trees to obtain the fruits.

The Afar Triangle, or Afar Depression(as known as the Danakil Desert), located in northeastern Ethiopia, was said to be one of the harshest places on earth and was formed by the Great Rift Valley.  In the Danakil Desert, the lowest elevation is below -100m above sea level and the dry season temperature is close to 50°C; surprisingly, this is the place where the Afar peoples live, besides, this place is a region with extremely active uplift: the volcano Dallol, which has the crater in the lowest place in the world on land: the volcano Elta Are, which has a low-viscosity lava lake.
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