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The Age of Some Carbonatite Igneous Activity in South-West Tanganyika

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. A. Miller  and
P. E. Brown
J. A. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge
P. E. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Sheffield University
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Abstract

Absolute age determinations by the potassium-argon method on biotite from the Musensi Hill intrusion and feldspar from a feldspathic breccia on the Mbeya Mountain Range indicate a Cretaceous age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 100 , Issue 3 , June 1963 , pp. 276 - 279
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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