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Ignimbrite in Central Kelantan, Malaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. C. Aw
Affiliation:
Geological Survey, Scrivenor Road, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia(Malaya).

Abstract

The presence of ignimbrite is described for the first time in Malaya. The field relations and a detailed study of the petrography support the interpretation that the 15-mile ridge outcropping in Central Kelantan, Malaya, is a thick “dyke” of ignimbrite which plugs an old feeding fissure. The Temangan Ignimbrite has a texture which is intermediate between tuff and rhyolite lava. The evidence suggests that the Temangan ignimbrite was emplaced as a tuff flow.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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