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Description: | Mostly alkaline volcanic and other igneous rocks, associated tuffs and sediments from Uganda and Kenya. Specimens include:
Uganda: Napak - nephelinites, tuffs, carbonatites and ijolites; Moroto - olivine basalt and phonolite.
Kenya: Fort Ternan - phonolite and tuffs; Koru quarries - tuffs and limestones; Songhor Gullies - tuffs, basanite, nephelinite, limestone and other specimens.
Some of this material duplicates that given to the Hunterian by Bishop and Whyte in 1963.
Collected by Frank Whyte. From the collections of the former Dundee University Geology Department. | Subjects: | Geology; | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Collected by Frank Whyte. From the collections of the former Dundee University Geology Department. | Identifier: | H-42 |
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