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Feldspathic vent agglomerates at Bukusu, Uganda—a reinterpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. W. Baldock
J. W. Baldock
Affiliation:
c/o British Embassy, Casilla 854, Lima, Peru
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Summary

Feldspathic agglomerates and related tuff-like rocks occurring at the Bukusu carbonatite complex were long thought to have been deposited as pyroclastics during a later (Elgon) period of volcanism. Evidence is presented for a reinterpretation of these rocks as vent agglomerates and tuffisites emplaced in the central diatreme of this large, pre-Elgon, complex.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 5 , September 1971 , pp. 407 - 412
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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