The Ituwa Surge deposits of the Holocene Ngozi caldera, Mbeya Region, Tanzania
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Lenhardt, Nils
Peeters, G.-J.
Macheyeki, Athanas S.
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Springer
Abstract
The Ituwa Surge deposits belong to the Holocene Ngozi volcano
(volcano number 222164 of the Smithsonian Institute Global Volcanism
Program; Siebert et al. 2010) of the Rungwe Volcanic Province
(RVP; Harkin 1960; Lenhardt and Oppenheimer 2014). They are
named after their type locality and place of best exposure, the village
of Ituwa in the Mbeya Region of southwestern Tanzania. Volcanism
within the RVP started approximately 9 Ma ago and can be divided
into a Late Miocene (*9.2–5.4 Ma), a Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene
(*3–1.6 Ma) and a Mid-Pleistocene-recent (\*0.6 Ma) phase
(Ebinger et al. 1989, 1993; Ivanov et al. 1999).
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Ituwa Surge, Deposits, Holocene Ngozi caldera, Mbeya Region, Tanzania
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Lenhardt, N, Peeters, G-J & Macheyeki, AS 2015, 'The Ituwa Surge deposits of the Holocene Ngozi caldera, Mbeya Region, Tanzania', International Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 749-751.