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Occurrence number:
030-00-024
Country:
Cameroon
Location:
Longitude: 10.72, Latitude: 5.53
Carbonatite:
No
This 8 km diameter volcano is part of the Bambouto (No. 23) volcanic field, lying on the eastern side, and comprises about 35% basalt and the rest rhyolite. The rhyolite contains abundant quartz and perthitic alkali feldspar phenocrysts with rather fewer of sodic amphibole and an opaque phase.
References:
TCHOUA, F. 1972b. Le massif volcanique de Mbapit (Pays Bamoun). Annales de la Faculté des Sciences, Université Fédérale du Cameroun. Yaoundé, 9: 45-71.
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