After a rain shower,shrubs of the Pea family (Papilionoideae) give a splash of colour to the forbidding landscape near Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity where deep fractures in the lava continue to widen year by year.
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On the inhospitable lava-strewn hills surrounding the inlet of Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a relative of the Dragon's Blood Tree (Dracaena orbet) struggles to survive in low rainfall and temperatures regularly exceeding 1000 F.
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An aerial view of the volcanic cones at the inlet of Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity where deep fractures in the lava continue to widen year by year.
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An aerial view of the caldera Sisale Koma,which is 3,937 feet in diameter and 300,000 years old. It is situated at the inlet of Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity where deep fractures in the lava continue to widen year by year.
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A perfect cone-shaped volcano juts into a beautiful turquoise sea at Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity.
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A little distance offshore from the coast of Djibouti, the northern extent of Africas Great Rift Valley abuts a triple junction where the oceanic rifts of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden converge.This photograph shows an obvious crack in a huge lava ridge.Other than Iceland, Djibouti is the only country where scientists can observe the sea floor spreading on dry land as two plates move apart.
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The inhospitable countryside between Garrayto and Lake Assal is strewn with lava and pale,friable material discharged from nearby volcanoes.
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The region surrounding Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat) is an inhospitable maze of lava rock,which makes walking virtually impossible.
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The impressive Canyon d'Adail_,known to the Afar people as Dimbia,is an intersection of rifts and land faulting,south of Ghoubbet el Kharäb.
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- Euphorbia shrubs and small 'wait-a-bit' thorn trees (Acacia brevispica) thrive among a confusion of basalt lava boulders at the southern end of Lake Turkana,near Sirima. Extensive lava fields in this region are an aftermath of Pleistocene volcanic activity and make walking a perfect misery.
- Euphorbia shrubs thrive among a confusion of basalt lava boulders at the southern end of Lake Turkana,near Sirima. Extensive lava fields in this region are an aftermath of Pleistocene volcanic activity and make walking a perfect misery.
- The volcanic island of Ounda Ginni Koma (the small Hill of Devils) situated near Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity where deep fractures in the lava continue to widen year by year. The sand around the island is reddish due to the colour of some friable volcanic material.
- Sculptured volcanic cliffs on the volcanic island of Ounda Ginni Koma (the small Hill of Devils),which is situated near Ghoubbet el Kharäb (the Devil's Throat),a region of high seismic activity where deep fractures in the lava continue to widen year by year. The sand around the island is reddish due to the colour of some friable volcanic material.
- The natural rock pools along the Sirima lugga are important to the Turkana and their stock in an otherwise waterless, rocky region at the southern end of Lake Turkana. In a year of average rainfall, water in the deepest pools will last throughout the year.Lake Turkana is just visible in this picture.
- South Island is Lake Turkanas largest island. Situated in the southern sector of the lake where the water reaches a depth of 374 feet, the island is a spine of volcanic cones and hills covering 15 square miles. The lava flows are remarkably well preserved.
- A Commiphora tree struggles for survival in a confused jumble of basalt lava boulders,reddened by the setting sun. Extensive lava fields are an unpleasant feature of southern Turkanaland.
- Maasai warriors stride across the golden grass plains at the foot of Ol doinyo Lengai, the Maasais Mountain of God. Ol doinyo Lengai is the only active volcano in the Gregory Rift, an important section of the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley system that stretches from northern Kenya into Northern Tanzania.