Massive Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, consists of three very large stratovolcanoes constructed along a NW-SE trend. Seen here from the SW, the ice-capped, 5895-m-high summit is cut by a 2.4 x 3.6 km caldera that gives the summit of the central stratovolcano (Kibo), an elongated broad profile. Most of Kilimanjaro was constructed during the Pleistocene, but a group of youthful-looking nested summit craters are of apparent Holocene age. Fumarolic activity continues at several locations on the summit plateau.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1977.

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Kilimanjaro