{{Short description|Volcano in Tanzania}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Kyejo | image = Panorama_Tukuyu.jpg | image_caption = View from Tukuyu | map = | map_caption = | country = Tanzania | region = Mbeya Region | label_position = right | elevation_m = 2,176 | prominence_m = | prominence_ref = | listing = List of volcanoes in Tanzania | range = Kipengere Range | coordinates = {{coord|9.229|33.792|_type:Mountain|display=title,inline}} | coordinates_ref = | formed_by = Volcanism along the Albertine Rift | type = Stratovolcano | age = | last_eruption = 1800 | first_ascent = | easiest_route = | range_coordinates = }}
'''Kyejo''' is an active stratovolcano in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania.<ref name="Fontijn">{{cite thesis |last1=Fontijn |first1=Karen |title=Physical volcanological study of the Rungwe volcanic province, Tanzania |date=2011|publisher=Ghent University. Faculty of Sciences|degree=PhD |url=https://openjournals.ugent.be/af/article/60706/galley/185111/view/}}</ref> It is located northwest of Lake Malawi.<ref name="gvp">{{Cite gvp|vnum=222170|name=Kyejo}}</ref> Eruptions at Kyejo are typically effusive although some moderately-sized explosions occur at its summit. Its numerous parasitic cones, a combination of spatter and cinder cones, are mostly distributed along its southern flanks. Volcanic activity in the area initiated during the mid-Pleistocene. Its last eruption was dated to around 1800 and is the only historically documented eruption on Kyejo. This eruption occrred at the Sarabwe and Fiteko parasitic cones along a northwest trending fissure at its northwestern slope. The three-day eruption produced lava flows that travelled {{cvt|8|km}}.<ref name="Fontijn12">{{cite journal |last1=Fontijn |first1=Karen |last2=Williamson |first2=David |last3=Mbede |first3=Evelyne |last4=Ernst |first4=Gerald G.J. |title=The Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania – A volcanological review |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |date=2012 |volume=63 |pages=12-31 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.11.005}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyejo}} Category:Geography of Mbeya Region Category:Active volcanoes Category:Southern Highlands, Tanzania Category:Southern Rift montane forest–grassland mosaic Category:Volcanoes of Tanzania Category:Important Bird Areas of Tanzania Category:Stratovolcanoes of Tanzania