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Occurrence number:
170-00-011
Country:
Uganda
Location:
Longitude: 34.03, Latitude: 4.15
Carbonatite:
No
Zulia is a syenite intrusion forming a hill close to the international boundary ‘triple point’ with Sudan and Kenya. Smith (1938) describes a loose boulder from the foot of the hill as a ‘hornblendic quartz syenite rich in microperthite’, which does not sound particularly alkaline. No other petrographic details have been traced.
References:
King et al., 1972; NIXON, P.H. and CLARK, L. 1967. The alkaline centre of Yelele and its bearing on the petrogenesis of other eastern Uganda volcanoes. Geological Magazine, 104: 455-72.SMITH, W.C. 1938. Petrographic description of volcanic rocks from Turkana, Kenya Colony, with notes on their field occurrence from the manuscript of Mr. A.M. Champion. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 94: 507-53.
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