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Plateau phonolite lava flows, Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. J. Lippard
S. J. Lippard
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyUniversity of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
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Summary

The Miocene phonolite succession of the Uasin Gishu Plateau comprises seven flows totalling about 600 km3 in volume and covering an area of some 6500 km2. Each flow has a number of recognizable and laterally persistent features which permit it to be recognized over a wide area (thousands of square kilometres). These flows originated within the Rift Valley and flowed westwards for distances of up to 60 km across the marginal plateau area.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 110 , Issue 6 , November 1973 , pp. 543 - 549
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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