The central Kenya peralkaline province: Insights into the evolution of peralkaline salic magmas

Lithos

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 59-73

  Macdonald, R ^a   Scaillet, B ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UMR 7327   (France)

Author keywords

Kenya; Peralkaline magmas; Petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

MAGMA CHAMBER; PERALKALINE ROCK; PETROGENESIS; RHYOLITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 33749520623     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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