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Dolomite from
Murumuli crater, Katwe-Kikorongo volcanic field (Katwe volcanic field), Kasese, Western Region, Uganda


Locality type:Crater
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murumuli crater, Katwe-Kikorongo volcanic field (Katwe volcanic field), Kasese, Western Region, Uganda
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1434489
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1434489:5
GUID (UUID V4):f6c9467a-e29f-42ca-b232-b023fd5beee7
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
55.6km (34.5 miles) ā“˜Bingo carbonatite, Bashu, Beni Territory, North Kivu, DR Congo
References
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lapilli-bearing tuff and a dolomite carbonatite bomb from Murumuli crater, Katwe volcanic field, Uganda F. STOPPA1,*...are described from the Murumuli crater, Katwe-Kikorongo volcanic field, SW Uganda which contain abundant...sanidine and altered prisms of melilite. A 7 cm long dolomite carbonatite bomb is described which displays a...Carbonatite clearly played an important role in the Katwe-Kikorongo magmatism and it is suggested that carbonatite...carbonatebearing melilitite. K EY WORDS : Katwe-Kikorongo, Uganda, carbonatite lapilli, carbonatite bomb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
K-maĀ®c-carbonatite effusive magmatic association of Katwe-Kikorongo, SW Uganda F. E. Lloyd1;2 , A. R. Woolley3, F. Stoppa4...mica in clinopyroxenite xenoliths and mica in Katwe-Kikorongo mixed melilitite-carbonatite tephra. Higher...high Cr. It is suggested that the genesis of Katwe-Kikorongo olivine melilitite and Fort Portal carbonatite...carbonatite magmatism (Bailey, 1993). The Katwe-Kikorongo volcanic Ā®eld forms part of the Quaternary to Recent...kamafugite-carbonatite province of south west Uganda in the western branch of the East African Rift (Fig. 1)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition and carbonateā€“silicate equilibria in the volcanic rocks of kamafugitic affinity in the Toro-Ankole...and dolomite) were found in olivines from ugandite and mafurite of the Bunyaruguru volcanic field. The...correspond to carbonatites. The find of barite and dolomiteā€“barite inclusions in the olivine from the mafurite...high-Mg ultrapotassic and carbonatite rocks in the western branch of the East African Rift Zone suggests the...area is expressed in the extreme enrichment of volcanic rocks in incompatible elements and mineral composition
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elsevier.com/locate/lithos Melilitite at Fort Portal, Uganda: Another dimension to the carbonate volcanism Ken...ultramafic-carbonate volcanism to the south, in Uganda, and parallels with that in Italy. D 2005 Elsevier...Quaternary volcanic field at the northern end of the Western Rift igneous province in Uganda (Holmes and...tuffs (the major deposit, defining the Fort Portal field); and the lava flows (the smallest eruptive unit)...cones. Although during the 1980Vs, the Fort Portal volcanic rocks were mooted as being calcified natrocarbonatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Fort Portal, Uganda, extrusive carbonatite G. Nelson Eby a,āŽ, Felicity...Quaternary Fort Portal volcanic ļ¬eld occurs at the northern end of the Western Rift in Uganda. The eruptive phases...Portal volcanic ļ¬eld, is the subject of this paper. The Quaternary Fort Portal and Kasekere volcanic ļ¬elds...ļ¬elds of southwest Uganda (Fig. 1) were ļ¬rst mapped and described by von Knorring and Du Bois (1961). The...west and north by rift faults associated with the western branch of the East African rift system. Fort Portal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript Xenoliths from Bunyaruguru volcanic field: some insights into lithology of East African...Muravyeva, V.G. Senin , Xenoliths from Bunyaruguru volcanic field: some insights into lithology of East African... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Xenoliths from Bunyaruguru volcanic field: some insights into lithology of East African...xenoliths from kamafugites of the Bunyaruguru volcanic field has been determined. The major and some trace...Bunyaruguru PT is one of three (Katwe-Kikorongo, Fort Portal and Bunyaruguru) volcanic fields included in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are seen. Checks on similar rocks from Germany, Uganda and Tanzania reveal magnetites with comparable...from alkaline and alkaline ultramafic silicate volcanic rocks cover only parts of this array. Magnetite...in the literature, fall in the same composition field, suggesting that this form of carbonatite may be...magnetite did not ļ¬gure in the cognate assemblage. Volcanic calciocarbonatites were known to contain magnetite...(Keller, 1989) but the only analysed example, from Uganda (Barker and Nixon, 1989), although high in Ti,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
strongly alkaline primitive volcanic rocks at the propagating tip of the western branch of the East African...characteristic of the Toro-Ankole volcanic ļ¬eld in southwestern Uganda, forming the youngest and most northward...northward volcanics of the western branch of the East African Rift. Lavas contain exceptionally low SiO2...Particularly in low magma volume rifts such as the western branch of the East African Rift, silicaundersaturated...a continental rift: it consists of eastern and western branches that have contrasting alkaline chemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1972; King et al., 1972; Woolley, 2001). The volcanic rocks from Tinderet range from 19.9 to 5.5 Ma...Roberts (1984) who identiļ¬ed both plutonic and volcanic carbonatites in the Koru, Songhor and Kipsesin-Ngeron...areas. Deans and Roberts (1984) suggested that the volcanic calcite carbonatites at Tinderet were originally...mineralogical and isotopic data on the Tinderet volcanic carbonatites are presented herein and compared...carbonatites are banded or massive ļ¬ne-grained volcanic rocks; petrographic and SEM observations conļ¬rm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stoppa et al. / Lithos 85 (2005) 26ā€“47 27 and field observation. Another, is that the two thirds of...genesis. They are young, fresh, have well-exposed field relationships and are now well-studied. Direct ascent...occurrences of extrusive carbonatite and only two are dolomite carbonatite, the rest are calcite carbonatite...42Ā° 13Ā° Pleistocene HK-volcanics of the Roman Region Plio-Pleistocene grabens 14Ā° Normal faults ...Ultra-alkaline Province (IUP) outcrops and the Roman Region (RR). 28 F. Stoppa et al. / Lithos 85 (2005)
 
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