stripes
Occurrence number:
054-00-032
Country:
Ethiopia
Location:
Longitude: 38.77, Latitude: 9.08
Carbonatite:
No
Mohr (1962a) records the presence of olivine trachytes, phonolitic trachytes, hyalotrachytes, alkaline rhyolites, tuffs and obsidian breccias in the Entotto Hills north of Addis Ababa.
Age:
Lower Miocene (Mohr and Zanettin, 1988).
References:
MOHR, P.A. 1962a (reprinted 1971). The geology of Ethiopia. University College of Addis Ababa Press, Addis Ababa. 268 pp.MOHR, P. and ZANETTIN, B. 1988. The Ethiopian flood basalt province. In J.D. Macdougall (ed), Continental flood basalts. 63-110. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
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