Haruj

Haruj
Haroudj
Haruj seen from space
Highest point
Elevation	1,200 m (3,900 ft)
Listing	Garet es Sebaa
Coordinates	27°15′N 17°30′E / 27.25°N 17.5°E / 27.25; 17.5"Haruj". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
Naming
Native name	هروج (Arabic)
Geography
Haruj
Country	Libya
District	Jufra
Geology
Age of rock	Pliocene to Holocene
Mountain type	Volcanic field
Type of rock	Tholeiitic-alkali basalt
Last eruption	2,310 ± 810 years ago

Haruj (Arabic: هروج, also known as Haroudj^[1]) is a large volcanic field spread across 42,000–45,000 km² (16,000–17,000 sq mi) in central Libya. It is one of several volcanic fields in Libya along with Tibesti, and its origin has been attributed to the effects of geologic lineaments in the crust.

It contains about 150 volcanoes, including numerous basaltic scoria cones and about 30 small shield volcanoes, along with craters and lava flows. Most of the field is covered by lava flows that originated in fissure vents; the rest of the flows originated within small shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes and scoria cones. Some of these vents have large craters. Volcanism in Haruj blocked ancient rivers and led to the formation of Lake Megafezzan.

Volcanic activity in Haruj commenced about 6 million years ago and continued into the late Pleistocene. There are a number of individual lava flow generations that were emplaced in the Haruj volcanic field, the most recent ones in the Holocene 2,310 ± 810 years ago. There are reports of solfataric activity.