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As a result of recent laboratory examination of some specimens obtained while collecting rock-types in the Legetet area of the Kericho District of Nyanza Province, a new occurrence of carbonatite has been found. The outcrop, which is quarried for lime, is located 35° 15′ 32″ W, 0° 9′ 7″ S (first edition of the 1 : 50,000 sheet South A-36, F–1–NE). Later inspection of aerial photographs of the region suggests that the carbonatite forms a hill about 200 ft. high, and extends for about half a mile north from the above locality (Fig. 1).
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LE BAS, M., DIXON, J. A New Carbonatite in the Legetet Hills, Kenya. Nature 207, 68 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207068a0
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