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Lava From Spatter Cone

Photo: Less than a yard wide, fresh lava flows from a collapsed spatter cone
Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano releases a silken stream of lava. Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only volcano in the world that erupts natrocarbonatite, a highly fluid lava with the viscosity of olive oil.
Photograph by Carsten Peter

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