Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris, and ash. The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the ...

Sims led the descent into the crater, anchoring ropes and spidering down walls. The rest of the party followed. Nyiragongo is in the Great Rift Valley, where the African continental plate is being ...

often in the form of a churning lava lake in the crater. In 2002 which is the last time Nyiragongo erupted, it lasted for a day but destroyed 15 per cent of Goma, including part of the ...

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Satellite pictures confirm there is a persistent lava lake inside the crater of a remote British ... Lava lakes are also known at Nyiragongo Volcano, DR Congo; Erta Ale Volcano, Ethiopia; Mount ...

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Among the most active and deadly of these volcanoes is Nyiragongo, a so-called stratovolcano located just north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this interactive ...