Aspects of Rift Valley faulting and volcanicity in North Tanzania: Report of a Geologists' Association Field Meeting in 2008

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-349

  Dawson, J Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental rifting; Field meeting; Tanzania; Volcanicity

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FAULTING; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NEPHELINITE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RIFTING; TRACHYTE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

TANZANIA;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 77956185311     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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