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Sodalite from
Longonot Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya


Locality type:Volcano
Classification
Species:Sodalite
Formula:Na4(Si3Al3)O12Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sodalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Longonot Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1427088
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1427088:2
GUID (UUID V4):443e0396-b78c-4583-9ab3-b591c7a442b0
Nearest other occurrences of Sodalite
30.7km (19.1 miles) Mount Suswa (Suswa Volcano), Kajiado County, Kenya
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
73 www.elsevier.com/locate/lithos The central Kenya peralkaline province: Insights into the evolution...Available online 30 May 2006 Abstract The central Kenya peralkaline province comprises five young (< 1 Ma)... Keywords: Kenya; Petrogenesis; Peralkaline magmas 1. Introduction In the central Kenya Rift Valley...Three are trachytic caldera volcanoes (Menengai, Longonot and Suswa) and two are rhyolitic complexes (Eburru...peralkaline trachyte caldera volcanoes (Menengai, Longonot and Suswa) and peralkaline rhyolite complexes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peralkaline syenite autoliths from Kilombe volcano, Kenya Rift Valley: Evidence for subvolcanic interaction...geochemistry of syenite autoliths from Kilombe volcano indicate that they crystallized in the upper parts...the Fe–Ti oxides in the silica-undersaturated (sodalite-bearing) syenites show no signs of deuteric alteration...These latter represent new mineral occurrences in Kenya. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords:...Keywords: Syenite; Carbonatite; Kilombe; Kenya rift valley; Ce-anomaly; REE–fluorcarbonate ⁎ Corresponding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cidades (SC); Fogo (F) caldera of Agua de Pau volcano, and Furnas (Fu). Dashed lines are the 8 m thickness...occurred from the Fogo caldera of Agua de Pau volcano in AD 1563 and from Furnas in AD 1640. In the last...Sao Miguel, of which 6 were from the Agua de Pau volcano. As on Tenerife, magmatically heterogeneous pumice...F in the pumice magmas is plotted in Fig. 4a. Sodalite, the most widespread chloride-bearing igneous...(1971). Instead, maximum fCle and fHC1 values for sodalite-free samples were found, and a "ceiling"fHC1 curve
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evidence from peralkaline rocks (e.g. Azores, Kenya) indicate very short timescales of fractionation...third stage, various agpaitic nepheline syenites (sodalite foyaite, naujaite, kakortokite and lujavrite)...phonolitic melt. They contain nepheline, eudialyte, sodalite, alkali feldspar, aegirine and arfvedsonite in...up the major part of the complex (Fig. 1). The sodalite foyaite and the naujaite are cumulates formed...lujavrite), in others they occur interstitially (sodalite foyaite, naujaite, red kakortokite). The only
Report (chapter)
Special Publications Outline of the petrology of the Kenya rift alkaline province B.H. Baker Geological Society...October 28, 2014 Outline of the petrology of the Kenya rift alkaline province B. H. Baker S U M M A R Y...eastern branch of the E African rift system in Kenya and northern Tanzania contains nearly the whole...majority of wellstudied suites of alkaline rocks in Kenya, including some unpublished data. Apart from questions...the province The alkaline volcanic province in Kenya and northern Tanzania is associated with the development
Report (volume)
273 BAKER, B. H. Outline of the petroIogy of the Kenya rift alkaline province 293 MACDONALD,R. Quaternary...peralkaline silicic rocks and caldera volcanoes of Kenya 313 WOOLLEY, A. R. & JONES, G. C. The petrochemistry...on the peralkaline silicic central volcanoes of Kenya and also favours an origin by crystal fractionation...pyroclastic deposits around central volcanoes in Kenya often show striking variations in the abundance...on the peralkaline silicic central volcanoes of Kenya and also favours an origin by crystal fractionation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al., 1996; Zaire: Bailey and Hampton, 1990; Kenya: Scott, 1982), or as discrete carbonate droplets... and amphibole, and minor apatite and zircon. Sodalite, fluorite and rare biotite are late-stage accessory...length, and alkali-feldspar, minor biotite and sodalite. The ne-syenites contain nepheline with a higher...more variable than at Etaneno where late-stage sodalite is present. Experimental studies on the influence... Scott, S.C., 1982. Evidence from Longonot volcano. Central Kenya, lending further support to the argument
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carbonatitic-alkaline province outcropping on the Kenya-Uganda border which have recently received significant...domain characterized East Africa from Madagascar and Kenya-Ethiopia to northeastern Sudan. It represents the...Popoff 1988a). Like the Atlantic Benue trough, the Kenya-Sudan Mesozoic trends could correspond to a failed...Segoufin and Patriat 1981; Mougenot et al. 1986). The Kenya-Sudan Mesozoic troughs hypothetized above could...East-African rift. This suggests that the Mesozoic NW-SE "Kenya-Sudan" rift-system has been reactivated, similarly
 
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