Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Rashin ƙanƙarar ƙanƙara na Kibo ya wanzu saboda Kilimanjaro yana da ƙananan yanki, babban dutse wanda ya tashi sama da layin dusar ƙanƙara. Rufin yana da bambanci kuma a gefuna ya rabu zuwa glaciers. Kashi na tsakiya na kankara ya katse ta wurin kasancewar ramin Kibo. Ruwan kankara da filayen kankara ba su nuna mahimman motsi na kwance ba saboda ƙarancin kaurin su ya hana manyan lalacewa. Shaidar ilimin ƙasa ta nuna aukuwa biyar na kankara a jere a lokacin Quaternary, wato na farko (500,000 BP), na biyu (mafi girma fiye da shekaru 360,000 da suka gabata zuwa 240,000 BP), na uku (150,000 zuwa 120,000 BP), na huɗu (wanda aka fi sani da "Babban") (20,000 zuwa 17,000 BP), da Little (16,000 zuwa 14,000 BP). Na Uku na iya zama mafi girma, kuma Little ya bayyana ba za a iya rarrabe shi da na huɗu ba. Ruwan kankara mai ci gaba wanda ke rufe kusan murabba'in kilomita 400 (150 sq mi) har zuwa tsawan mita 3,200 (10,500 ft) ya rufe Kilimanjaro a lokacin Last Glacial Maximum a zamanin Pleistocene (Babban ɓangaren glacial), wanda ya faɗaɗa a ƙwanƙolin Kibo da Mawenzi. Saboda yanayin bushewa na musamman a lokacin Younger Dryas mai zuwa, filayen kankara a Kilimanjaro na iya zama sun mutu kusan shekaru 11,500 da suka gabata. Kwayoyin kankara da aka ɗauka daga Kilimanjaro ta Arewacin Ice Field (NIF) ya nuna cewa glaciers a can suna da shekaru kimanin shekaru 11,700, kodayake nazarin kankara da aka ɗauka a shekara ta 2011 daga tsaunukan tsaunuka a cikin NIF yana tallafawa shekarun da suka kai shekaru 800 kawai. Yawan ruwan sama mafi girma a farkon zamanin Holocene (shekaru 11,500 BP) ya ba da izinin kankara don sake fasalin. Glaciers sun tsira daga mummunan fari a cikin shekaru uku da suka fara kimanin shekaru 4,000 BP.  Tambaya: Shekaru nawa ne glaciers da aka dauka daga Kilimanjaro Northern Ice Fields?
Shekaru 11,700