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Brennan H. Baker

Postdoctoral scholar, University of Washington
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Geology of the eastern rift system of Africa

BH Baker, PA Mohr, LAJ Williams - 1972 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The eastern rift of Africa is a zone of normal faults separating the Horn of Africa from the
remainder of the continent. The zone is typically troughlike, 40 to 65 km wide, and traverses two …

Structure and evolution of the Kenya Rift Valley

BH BAKER, J Wohlenberg - Nature, 1971 - nature.com
Rift Valley Page 1 533 NATURE VOL. 229 FEBRUARY 19 1971 Structure and Evolution of the
Kenya Rift Valley B, H, BAK ER & J. WOHLENBERG Geology Department, University of Nairobi …

Sequence and geochronology of the Kenya rift volcanics

BH Baker, LAJ Williams, JA Miller, FJ Fitch - Tectonophysics, 1971 - Elsevier
The Upper Cenozoic volcanic formations associated with the Kenya rift valley are divided
into seven main stratigraphic groups representing widespread ‘plateau’ formations, and a …

[PDF][PDF] Magadi area

BH Baker - Report Geol. survey Kenija, 1958 - edepot.wur.nl
This report describes an area of some 1,200 square miles in the southern part of the Gregory
Rift Valley in Kenya; the area is bounded by latitudes 1 30'and 2 00'S. and longitudes 36 00'…

Outline of the petrology of the Kenya rift alkaline province

BH Baker - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1987 - lyellcollection.org
The Kenyan and N Tanzanian volcanic province contains sodic alkaline rocks ranging from
melilitites and melanephelinites to transitional alkali basalts and their differentiates. …

Tectonics and volcanism of the southern Kenya Rift Valley and its influence on rift sedimentation

BH Baker - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1986 - lyellcollection.org
Volcanism in the northern half of the Kenya Rift Valley began at 30 Ma, and in the southern
half it began at 15 Ma. In the southern rift tectonic development started with gentle …

Stratigraphy, geochronology and volcano-tectonic evolution of the Kedong–Naivasha–Kinangop region, Gregory Rift Valley, Kenya

BH Baker, JG Mitchell, LAJ Williams - Journal of the Geological …, 1988 - lyellcollection.org
… several stratigraphic anomalies have become apparent (Baker et al. 1971). Here we report
a northward extension of earlier work on the east side of the Rift (Baker & Mitchell 1976) as a …

Liquid fractionation. Part I: Basic principles and experimental simulations

AR McBirney, BH Baker, RH Nilson - Journal of Volcanology and …, 1985 - Elsevier
A possible explanation for the closely associated magmas of contrasting compositions
erupted from many mature volcanic centers can be found in the large differences of density …

Geochemistry and petrogenesis of a basalt-benmoreite-trachyte suite from the southern part of the Gregory Rift, Kenya

BH Baker, GG Goles, WP Leeman… - … to Mineralogy and …, 1977 - Springer
… 1) and the stratigraphy and geochronology of the volcanic rocks have been worked out in
detail (Baker and Mitchell, 1976). The upper part of the volcanic succession consists of the O1 …

Volcanic stratigraphy and geochronology of the Kedong–Olorgesailie area and the evolution of the South Kenya rift valley

BH Baker, JG Mitchell - Journal of the Geological Society, 1976 - lyellcollection.org
… Structures of this type on a variety of scales have been described by Baker (I958), McCall
(t967) and Temperley (I966) as 'faced scarps' and other examples from the area are mentioned …