The Mount Cameroon 1959 compound lava flow field: Morphology, petrography and geochemistry

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-98

  Njome, Manga S ^a   Suh, Cheo E ^a   Sparks, R Stephen J ^b   Ayonghe, Samuel N ^a   Fitton, J Godfrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1959 compound flow field; Aa lava; Basanite hawaiite; Mt. Cameroon

Indexed keywords

AA LAVA; BASANITE; DEGASSING; FLOW FIELD; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; MORPHOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; STAGNATION FLOW; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; FRACTIONATION; LAVA TUBE; LEVEE;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; MOUNT CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 49949095105     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-007-1245-x     Document Type: Article

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