Mount Kenya volcanic activity and the Late Cenozoic landscape reorganisation in the upper Tana fluvial system

Geomorphology

Volumn 145-146, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-31

  Veldkamp, A ^a   Schoorl, J M ^b   Wijbrans, J R ^c   Claessens, L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Fluvial terrace; Lahar; Rift valley formation; Thiba basalt; Volcanic tuff

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FLUVIAL PROCESS; LAHAR; LAVA; PHONOLITE; PLIOCENE; RIFT ZONE; STRATOVOLCANO; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

KENYA; MOUNT KENYA;

EID: 84856949982     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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