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Nephelinite from
Ngong Hills, Kajiado County, Kenya


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Type:Nephelinite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nephelinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ngong Hills, Kajiado County, Kenya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1427486
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1427486:0
GUID (UUID V4):85a8fbd0-df68-4630-b33f-e06e1b54d4aa
Nearest other occurrences of Nephelinite
39.9km (24.8 miles) Olorgesailie Mountain, Kajiado County, Kenya
41.4km (25.7 miles) Shanamu Hills, Kajiado County, Kenya
References
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Report (issue)
REPUBLIC OF KENYA MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KENYA GEOLOGY OF...OF THE KAJIADO AREA DEGREE SHEET 51, S.E. QUARTER (with coloured geological map) by F. J. MATHESON, B...item reference number concerned. GEOLOGY OF THE KAJIADO AREA DEGREE SHEET 51, S.E. QUARTER (with coloured...publication of this report on the geology of the Kajiado area fills one of the few remaining gaps in the...the geological mapping of the southern part of Kenya. The southern part of the area is an extension of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Differentiation Trends in Tertiary to Recent Lavas of Kenya* By J. B. WRIGHT ABSTRACT The distribution of Tertiary...Tertiary to Recent lavas in part of south-west Kenya is outlined, and attention drawn to the predominance...feldspar versus silica, for analysed lavas from Kenya and Tanganyika, are used to illustrate the trends...complexes in Kenya is discussed and the possibility mooted that the presence of nephelinite lavas may be... INTRODUCTION THE Tertiary to Recent lavas of Kenya are a typical continental sodic alkaline suite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
belonging to the Gwasi volcanic centre. The nephelinite there is consequently post-Lower Miocene, but...tuffs, overlain by nephelinite agglomerate which in turn interdigitates with nephelinite plateau lava, the...final stratum in the cycle of accumulation. This nephelinite is little younger than the fossiliferous Lower...of the phonolite which underlies the plateau nephelinite in the Lumbwa district is provided by bombs of...comparatively perfect preservation of the immense (nephelinite) dome of Elgon " (1921, p. 126) Gregory deduced
Report (issue)
No. 42 COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KENYA OF THE MAGADI AREA DEGREE SHEET...Yet Magadi has provided more mineral wealth for Kenya than any other part of the Colony. Between 1916...the southern part of the Gregory Rift Valley in Kenya; the area is bounded by latitudes 1° 30' and 2°...report is the south-west quarter of Degree Sheet 51 (Kenya Colony) bounded by latitudes 1° 30' and 2° 00' S...being administered by the District Commissioner, Kajiado, while the part west of the Nguruman escarpment
Book
sedimentological and palaeontological studies in the Kenya Rift Valley project. This, indeed, worked exceedingly... GREGORY RIFT VALLEY TANZANIA; OLORGESAILIE, KENYA I51 10. MARY D, LEAKEY. Olduvai Gorge 1911-1975:...SHACKLETON. Geological Map of the Olorgesailie Area, Kenya 171 12. 13. GLYNN LL. IsAAc. The Olorgesailie...Contents B. Tue Lake Barinco Basin, KENYA 14. GREGORY R. CHAPMAN Basin, Kenya & MAUREEN BROOK. Ghronostratigraphy...stratigraphy of the area west of Lake Baringo, Kenya 225 16. MARTIN H. L. PICKFORD. Geology, palaeoenvironments
Book
L ate Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of the Kenya Rift Valley G.]. H. McCall, B. H. Baker, and]. Walsh...Uganda and slightly later deposits in Northern Kenya. A new report on the genus is in preparation. Proconsulidae...Insectivora and Chiroptera from the fi1iocene rocks of Kenya Colony. Fossil Mammals of Africa, No. 13. British...Miocene Flora of Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Palaontographica, (Stuttgart). 101B: 3071. Clark...London (10) 11 :96-98. 1933b Miocene primates from Kenya. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) London 38:43764. 1934 New
 
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