Mineral stability in peralkaline silicic rocks: Information from trachytes of the Menengai volcano, Kenya

Lithos

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 553-568

  Macdonald, R ^a,b   Baginski, B ^a   Leat, P T ^c   White, J C ^d   Dzierzanowski, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Menengai volcano; Mineral composition; Mineral stability fields; Peralkaline trachytes and rhyolites; QUILF

Indexed keywords

AENIGMATITE; AMPHIBOLE; APATITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; FAYALITE; FELDSPAR; GLASS; HEDENBERGITE; ILMENITE; MAGMA; MINERAL PROPERTY; PERALKALINE ROCK; PHENOCRYST; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE; TITANOMAGNETITE; TRACHYTE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KENYA; KENYA RIFT; MENENGAI VOLCANO; RIFT VALLEY;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 79958837357     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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