Hedenbergite from
Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon

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Classification
Locality type:	Volcano
Species:	Hedenbergite
Formula:	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Hedenbergite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	1422904
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:1422904:6
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800064128 *Lacroix, Alfred (1923) Minéralogie de Madagascar Tome III* - Lithologie Appendice - Index Geographique. Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 450 pp. Gèze, B. (1943). Géographie physique et géologie du Cameroun occidental (Vol. 17). Éditions du Muséum, 1-271. Jérémine, E. (1943). Contribution à l'étude pétrographique du Cameroun Occidental. In: Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris, NS, 17, 273-320. Smith, A. L. (1970) Sphene, perovskite and coexisting Fe-Ti oxide minerals. American Mineralogist, 55 (1-2) 264-269 Fitton, J. G., Hughes, D. J. (1981) Strontian melilite in a nephelinite lava from Etinde, Cameroon. Mineralogical Magazine, 44 (335) 261-264 doi:10.1180/minmag.1981.044.335.03 Fitton, J. G., & Dunlop, H. M. (1985). The Cameroon line, West Africa, and its bearing on the origin of oceanic and continental alkali basalt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 72(1), 23-38. doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(85)90114-1 Fitton, J. G. (1987). The Cameroon line, West Africa: a comparison between oceanic and continental alkaline volcanism. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 30(1), 273-291. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1987.030.01.13 NKOUMBOU, C., D RUELLE, B., VELDE, D. (1995) Petrology of Mt Etinde Nephelinite Series. Journal of Petrology, 36 (2) 373-395 doi:10.1093/petrology/36.2.373**

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Hedenbergite from Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon

Hedenbergite from
Mount Etinde, Buea, Fako, Southwest Region, Cameroon