The Incredible Hydrothermal Fields of Ethiopia

The hydrothermal fields of Ethiopia look like landscapes of an alien plant. The amazing photographs of the Dallol Volcano in Ethiopia look out of the world. Dallol is actually a hydrothermal field, an endless yellow-orange landscape, with craters stretching for several miles around.

The volcano fields are located in the northern Danakil depression. This part of the world has too many hot springs which discharge brine and acidic liquid. However, almost 150 feet below sea level, Dallol’s crater’s lowest known subaerial vent in the world, the explosion crater was formed by the intrusion of basaltic magma in Miocene salt deposits and subsequent hydrothermal activity.

A German-based photographer Adrian Rohnfelder, who is curious to look at something special in Ethiopia, fulfilled his desire to shoot an active lava lake. He was a self-proclaimed lava hunter to shoot lave the lake of Erta Ale, another volcano in Ethiopia. Adrian visited this part of the world at the end of Feb 2016. He said, I’m really amazed and blown by Dallol, what an incredible view, a massive huge area full of bright colors, like orange, yellow, red, green, blue, and white. I was totally stunned and thought this planet is far away on the other side of our milky way, it was a scene I have never seen before.

I took gorgeous images of a lave flowing from volcano Erta Ale, located in the Afar region. Moreover, as well as Dallol’s lively landscape like the hot springs of Yellowstone Park in the U.S. Therefore, Erta Ale continues Lava Lake has been active for the past several decades. I’ve been becoming interested in volcanoes since 2005, and photographing the active lava lake of Erta Ale has long been a dream.

Because, volcanoes let me feel the real power of nature in every sense, the ear-battering explosions, frightening shockwaves, falling lava bombs, and the agonizing heat of nearby floating lava, including the optical spectacle of infinite fireworks. You know, the “Erta Ale” volcano with one of the very rare persistent lava lakes on earth of course has been on the top of my volcanic bucket list. Source: Dailymail