Obsidian from
Menengai Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya

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Classification
Locality type:	Volcano
Type:	Obsidian
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Obsidian data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Menengai Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	1427013
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:1427013:8
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Obsidian

53.8km (33.4 miles)	ⓘ Eburru Volcanic Complex, Nakuru County, Kenya
73.1km (45.4 miles)	ⓘ Lake Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya
References
McCall, G. J. H. (1967). Geology of the Nakuru-Thomson's Falls-Lake Hannington area. Rep. Geol. Surv. Kenya, 78, 122. Jennings, D. J. (1971). Geology of the Molo area. Report. Geological Survey of Kenya, 86. Leat, P. T. (1984). Geological evolution of the trachytic caldera volcano Menengai, Kenya Rift Valley. Journal of the Geological Society, 141(6), 1057-1069. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.141.6.1057 Leat, P. T., MacDonald, R., & Smith, R. L. (1984). Geochemical evolution of the Menengai caldera volcano, Kenya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 89(B10), 8571-8592. doi.org/10.1029/JB089iB10p08571 Leat, P. T. (1985). Facies variations in peralkaline ash-flow tuffs from the Kenya Rift Valley. Geological magazine, 122(2), 139-150. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800031046 Leat, P. T. (1991). Volcanological development of the Nakuru area of the Kenya rift valley. Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East), 13(3-4), 483-498. doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(91)90111-B Macdonald, R., Navarro, J. M., Upton, B. G. J., & Davies, G. R. (1994). Strong compositional zonation in peralkaline magma: Menengai, Kenya Rift Valley. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 60(3-4), 301-325. doi.org/10.1016/0377-0273(94)90057-4

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Obsidian from Menengai Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya

Obsidian from
Menengai Volcano, Nakuru County, Kenya