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Anorthoclase from
Lake Tana Area, Amhara Region, Ethiopia


Locality type:Volcanic Field
Classification
Species:Albite var: Anorthoclase
Formula:(Na,K)AlSi3O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anorthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lake Tana Area, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1424882
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1424882:9
GUID (UUID V4):ebe862b4-e28f-4ea9-ad49-f56ac4e9aab4
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(flood na phonolites in Kenya, rhyolites in Ethiopia) dominated the landscape until ca. 12 Ma. From...(Mid-Miocene Resurgence Phase) impacted the entire region from the Afar margin to Kenya, though activity...Turkana may relate to the Mesozoic rifting in that region which modified the continental lithosphere. Keywords:...Keywords: Rift, magmatism, East Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, East African Rift System of 1. INTRODUCTION...boundary of the Afar Depression to central Kenya. This region is dominated by the Main Ethiopian Rift and Kenya
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ababa University, P.O. Box. 729/1033, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge...basaltic activity began at c. 45 Ma in southernmost Ethiopia (Davidson and Rex, 1980) but the peak of volcanic...The Oligocene pre-rift flood basalts in northern Ethiopia are believed to contain melts formed within an...believed to be currently located beneath the Afar region (Marty et al., 1996). Furman et al. (2006) have...from the ‘tail’ of the Afar plume. In southern Ethiopia, a progression of melts derived from a mantle
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The upper-mantle low-velocity anomaly beneath Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania: Constraints on the origin.... . . . . . . . . 37 Andrew A. Nyblade 4. The Ethiopia Afar Geoscientific Lithospheric Experiment (EAGLE):...Keir, and Eve Daly 5. Peridotite xenoliths from Ethiopia: Inferences about mantle processes from plume...propagation into the southern Tyrrhenian backarc region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....in a schematic lithospheric profile of the Bayuda area includes predominantly granitoids, migmatites, and
 
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