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Nephelinite from
Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon


Locality type:Volcano
Classification
Type:Nephelinite
Age information
Maximum recorded age:0.082 ± 0.3 Ma
Minimum recorded age:0.065 ± 0.1 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
10.082 ± 0.3 to 0.065 ± 0.1 MaPleistocene - K-Ar
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nephelinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1209365
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1209365:0
GUID (UUID V4):2d945d9b-3cc9-4a86-96d4-6d6c473de554
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
response to hydrothermal alteration at Mount Etinde, Cameroon Jacques Etame a,∗ , Che Emmanuel Suh b...Douala, Faculty of Sciences, BP 24157, Douala, Cameroon Economic Geology Unit, Department of Geology and...Environmental Science, University of Buea, P.O. Box 63, Buea, Cameroon c IRD, UMR 161 CEREGE, Institut de...February 2011 Accepted 16 August 2011 Keywords: Nephelinite Hydrothermal alteration Phillipsite REE a b...rocks and hydrothermally altered rocks at Mount Etinde (Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa) have been studied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Symmetrical Helium isotope distribution on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa Festus T. Aka a,*,...and Geophysical Research (ARGV), P.O. Box 370 Buea, Cameroon b Laboratory for Earthquake Chemistry, Graduate...Geological Research (IRGM), P.O. Box 4110 Yaounde, Cameroon Received 17 February 2003; accepted 2 October...the 12 main volcanic centers of the intraplate Cameroon Volcanic Line in West Africa. Samples range in...considered to be an intrinsic characteristic of the Cameroon Volcanic Line system. Previous work has shown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
budget of U-series nuclides in soils from the Mount Cameroon volcano Eric Pelt a,⁎, François Chabaux a,...deposit U-series nuclides Basalt weathering Mount Cameroon volcano a b s t r a c t The atmospheric dust...soil and paleo-soil (b 10 ka) proïŹles from the Mount Cameroon volcano where Sr–Nd–Pb ïŹngerprints are clearly...collected from the northeastern ïŹ‚ank of the Mount Cameroon volcano, where important Saharan dust depositions...isotopic compositions and concentrations of the Mount Cameroon basalts (mantle-like Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic composition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of the volcanic rocks from Bioko Island (“Cameroon Hot Line”): Evidence for plume-lithosphere interaction...UniversitĂ© de NgaoundĂ©rĂ©, B.P. 454, NgaoundĂ©rĂ©, Cameroon Laboratoire de Magmatologie et GĂ©ochimie Inorganique...UniversitĂ© de NgaoundĂ©rĂ©, B.P. 115, Meiganga, Cameroon d Laboratoire de GĂ©ochimie Isotopique et GĂ©odynamique...the presently more active volcanic zone of the Cameroon Line and composed essentially of alkaline basalts...geochemical signatures are similar to those of the Mount Cameroon rocks, and might be attributed to low degrees
Book
in Le Bas's (1977) book intitled Carbonatite-Nephelinite volcanism; ii) the southern Africa Karoo magmatism...ring complexes and the chapter devoted to the Cameroon line. A detailed review of African ring complexes... XIV 2 Contents Phanerozoic Volcanism of Southwest Uganda: A Case for Regional K and lile Enrichment...Ultrapotassic Mafic-Ultramafic Magmatism in the Southwest Uganda Region of the African Rift: Implications from...Mafic-Ultramafic Ultra potassic Rocks of the Southwest Ugandan Area ........................... 3 Inferences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
d’Ambre/Bobaomby, Massif d’Ambre) to the southwest (Ankililoaka, Tulear region; NU Fig. 1a). This volcanism is...and after formation of the lacustrine basins, the region is believed to MA have experienced regional E-W...basanites (4.2-4.8) indicate a highly enriched source region (Melluso et al., 2016 and references therein)....and Schmincke, 1984; Tenerife: Bryan, 2006; Mt. Etinde: Nkombou et al., 1995; Mt. Vulture: Beccaluva et...basanites and tephrites (and maybe also some nephelinite types) are associated with phonolites s.s., rather
 
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