Dallol ( volcano ) - Wikipedia Dallol ( volcano ) This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. ( September 2011 ) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine - translated version of the French article. Google 's machine translation is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy - pasting machine - translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low - quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign - language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary ( using German ) : Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ( ( : de : Exact name of German article ) ) ; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template ( ( Translated fr Dallol ( volcan ) ) ) to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia : Translation. Dallol Highest point Elevation − 48 m ( − 157 ft ) 14 ° 14 ′ 30 '' N 40 ° 18 ′ 00 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 14.24167 ° N 40.30000 ° E ﻿ / 14.24167 ; 40.30000 Geography Location Ethiopia Parent range Danakil Depression Geology Mountain type Explosion craters Last eruption 2011 Dallol is a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. It has been formed by the intrusion of basaltic magma into Miocene salt deposits and subsequent hydrothermal activity. Phreatic eruptions took place here in 1926, forming Dallol Volcano ; numerous other eruption craters dot the salt flats nearby. These craters are the lowest known subaerial volcanic vents in the world, at 45 m ( 150 ft ) or more below sea level. In October 2004 the shallow magma chamber beneath Dallol deflated and fed a magma intrusion southwards beneath the rift. An phreatic eruption occurred in January 2011. Numerous hot springs are discharging brine and acidic liquid here. Small, widespread, temporary geysers produce cones of salt. The Dallol deposits include significant bodies of potash found directly at the surface. The term Dallol was coined by the Afar people and means dissolution or disintegration, describing a landscape of green acid ponds ( pH - values less than 1 ) and iron oxide, sulfur and salt desert plains. The area resembles the hot springs areas of Yellowstone Park. Contents 1 Gallery 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Gallery The Danakil desert seen from Dallol Salt and sulfur formations at Dallol Guide standing in Dallol See also List of volcanoes in Ethiopia Dallol -- a ghost town in the Dallol crater. It had the record high average temperature for an inhabited location on Earth. References Jump up ^ `` Dallol salt springs and geysers ''. Wondermondo. Jump up ^ Nobile, A ; Pagli, C ; Keir, D ; Wright, TJ ; Ayele, A ; Ruch, J ; Acocella, A ( October 2012 ). `` Dike - fault interaction during the 2004 Dallol intrusion at the northern edge of the Erta Ale Ridge ( Afar, Ethiopia ) ''. Geophysical Research Letters. 39 ( 19 ) : n / a. doi : 10.1029 / 2012GL053152. Jump up ^ https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=221041 Jump up ^ `` Dallol in March, 2015 ''. Independent Travellers. independent-travellers.com. Retrieved July 3, 2017. `` Dallol ''. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. On the Volcanoes of the World episode The Horn of Africa ( 2008 ; Science Channel ) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dallol. Photos from Dallol taken during an expedition to the Danakil in Feb. 2008 This article about a location in the Afar Region of Ethiopia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This volcanology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dallol_(volcano)&oldid=812875901 '' Categories : Maars of Ethiopia Volcanoes of Ethiopia Active volcanoes Volcanoes of the Great Rift Valley Afar Region Afar geography stubs Volcanology stubs Hidden categories : Articles to be expanded from September 2011 All articles to be expanded Geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Cebuano Čeština Deutsch Español Esperanto Français 한국어 Hrvatski Italiano ქართული Македонски 日本 語 Polski Русский Slovenčina Svenska Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 30 November 2017, at 11 : 30. About Wikipedia

Question: dallol crater in the afar region of ethiopia
Answer: a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression