| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Reconnaissance potassium–argon geochronology of the Suregei–Asille district, northern Kenya |
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| Journal | Geological Magazine |
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| Authors | Fitch, F. J. | Author |
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| Hooker, P. J. | Author |
| Miller, J. A. | Author |
| Mitchell, J. G. | Author |
| Watkins, R. T. | Author |
| Year | 1985 (November) | Volume | 122 |
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| Issue | 6 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0016756800032027Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 252918 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:252918:3 |
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| Full Reference | Fitch, F. J., Hooker, P. J., Miller, J. A., Mitchell, J. G., Watkins, R. T. (1985) Reconnaissance potassium–argon geochronology of the Suregei–Asille district, northern Kenya. Geological Magazine, 122 (6) 609-622 doi:10.1017/s0016756800032027 |
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| Plain Text | Fitch, F. J., Hooker, P. J., Miller, J. A., Mitchell, J. G., Watkins, R. T. (1985) Reconnaissance potassium–argon geochronology of the Suregei–Asille district, northern Kenya. Geological Magazine, 122 (6) 609-622 doi:10.1017/s0016756800032027 |
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| In | (1985, November) Geological Magazine Vol. 122 (6) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | AbstractPotassium–argon dating of 44 samples of basalt lavas and pantelleritic ignimbrites provides a provisional chronology for the 1900-metre thick Cenozoic succession of the Suregei–Asille district, northeast of Lake Turkana. Volcanic rocks of the Asille Group range in age from late Oligocene (Chattian) to late Miocene (Tortonian). Data obtained from conventional K–Ar total-rock analysis of basalt samples are appraised statistically to indicate the presence of three periods of enhanced volcanism centred around 27, 17 and 11.5 Ma. Equivalent ages obtained from the pyroclastic pantellerites by conventional K–Ar total-rock analysis and 40Ar/39Ar analysis of sanidine concentrates indicate that basic and acid eruptions were closely spaced in time. Continental tholeiite flood lavas belonging to the Gombe Group are of Pliocene age, but are difficult to date precisely because of their young ages and relatively high atmospheric contamination occurring as a result of the secondary alteration in the ubiquitous glass mesostasis. Those ages involving least atmospheric correction are considered most reliable, and are closely similar for the Chen Alia and Harr formations at around 4.85 Ma, although later flood eruptions may have occurred to the south and west of the Suregei–Asille district at about 3.85 Ma. |
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