dc.contributor.author | Brock, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Raja, PKS | |
dc.contributor.author | Vise, JB | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-25T11:19:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-25T11:19:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1971-12-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brock, A., Raja, P. K. S., & Vise, J. B. (1972). The palaeomagnetism of the Kisii Series, western Kenya. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 28(2), 129-137. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/65553 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Precambrian Kisii Series in Western Kenya is unmetamorphosed and contains andesites, rhyolites, quartzites and basalts. The basalts, for which a minimum K-Ar age of 930 My is cited, were sampled at 15 sites, and after A.F. treatment nine sites yielded a stable palaeomagnetic direction which is believed to be primary. The mean direction (N= 9) after tilt correction is D= 99°, I=−59°, α= 10°, and the corresponding palaeomagnetic south pole is at 6° N, 12° W with A95= 14°. This pole lies close to several other poles for Africa but it is of a very different age and it cannot be correlated with them. Instead it is suggested that the Kisii pole must form part of a previously undefined polar wander path for the Late Precambrian of Africa proposed in an accompanying paper by Brock and Piper. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | The Palaeomagnetism of the Kisii Series, Western Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |