Geology

Geology

Glencore Doctoral Research Fellow

RESEARCH

The evolution of high-beryllium-niobium-tantalum pegmatites in the Mozambique Belt of Kenya.

Research funding: CIMERA, SEG, Glencore-Xstrata Research Fellowship Fund.  

TEACHING

• GLG102 Stratigraphy
• GLG302 Petroleum Geology 

Conference presentations

1. Muriungi N, Büttner SH (2025) Petrogenesis and critical minerals chemistry of pegmatites in Embu County, Keny 30^th Colloquium of African Geology (CAG30), Book of abstracts, 23-27 September, Nairobi, Kenya.
2. Muriungi N, Büttner SH (2025) The geochemical evolution of Nb-Ta oxides in rare-element pegmatites from Embu County, Kenya. 13^th Igneous and Metamorphic Studies Group Conference: IMSG 2025, Book of Abstracts, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
3. Muriungi N, Büttner SH, Glodny J (2024) Geochemistry of tantalum-niobium oxides in the rare-metal pegmatites of Embu, Kenya. AGU, Washington, USA, 9-13 December 2024.
4. Muriungi N, Büttner SH, Glodny J, Harder S (2024) Fluorine and bismuth-bearing accessory minerals indicate magma evolution in rare element pegmatites in Embu County, Kenya. 4^th European Mineralogical Conference, 18-23 August, Dublin, Ireland.

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