Texture and mineralogy of tuffs and tuffisites at Ruri Volcano in western Kenya: A carbonatite, melilitite, mantle-debris trio

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 72, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 1, 2003, Pages 181-204

  Stoppa, Francesco ^a   Rosatelli, Gianluigi ^a   Wall, Prances ^b   Le Bas, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonatite; Homa Kenya; Mantle debris; Melilitite; Tuffisite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347019428     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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