The role of tephrachronology in recognizing synchronous caldera-forming events at the Quaternary volcanoes Longonot and Suswa, south Kenya Rift

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 161, Issue , 1999, Pages 47-67

  Scott, Stuart C ^a   Skilling, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANISM;

KENYA;

EID: 0033396653     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.161.01.05     Document Type: Article

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