Kenyte

Short description: Type of igneous rock

Kenyte from Mount Kenya

Kenyte is a type of igneous rock. More specifically, it is a variety of porphyritic phonolite or trachyte with rhomb-shaped phenocrysts of anorthoclase with variable amounts of olivine and augite in a glassy matrix; the glass may be devitrified.[1]

It was originally described and named by J. W. Gregory in 1900 for the occurrence on Mount Kenya.[2][3] Kenyte has also been reported from Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) and Mount Erebus (Antarctica).[4]

## References

1. ↑ "Mt. Kenya Volcano". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326120008/http://www1.newark.ohio-state.edu/Professional/OSU/Faculty/jstjohn/Volcano stuff/Mt.-Kenya.htm. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
2. ↑ Roger Walter Le Maître, Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms: Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks, Cambridge University Press; 2nd ed., 2002, p. 96 ISBN:978-0-521-66215-4
3. ↑ J. W. Gregory, The Geological History of Mount Kenya, The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 56, 1900, pp. 219-220
4. ↑ Kyle, Philip R., ed., Volcanological and Environmental Studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica, American Geophysical Union (December 1994), p. xi ISBN:978-0-87590-875-5

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