Lithospheric thickness beneath the Southern Kenya Rift: Implications from basalt geochemistry

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 89-106

  Le Roex, A P ^a   Spath A ^a   Zartman, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; P-T CONDITIONS; RIFT ZONE;

KENYA; KENYA RIFT VALLEY;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 0034760865     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100100273     Document Type: Article

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