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The Rocks of the Lupata Gorge and the North Side of the Lower Zambezi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. Dixey  and
W. Campbell Smith
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The alkaline volcanic rocks of the Lupata Gorge were described in 1915 by E. O. Teale and R. C. Wilson, and in 1922 F. P. Mennell showed that at the entrance to the gorge these rocks were preceded by a sheet of columnar rhyolite intercalated between two series of sediments, for which he proposed the name of the Upper and Lower Lupata Sandstones respectively; the Lower series rested on Karroo basalts, and these upon Karroo sandstones. In 1923, E. O. Teale and W. Campbell Smith gave a detailed petro-graphical description of certain of the alkaline lavas and of the intrusive olivine-nephelinite (nepheline-basalt) of Sena Hill on the south side of the Zambezi.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 66 , Issue 6 , June 1929 , pp. 241 - 259
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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