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It is characterized by basanitic, alkali basaltic and transitional basaltic series. Mineral chemistry, major and trace element bulk-rock compositions, and geochemical modelling suggest that the magmatic series evolved mainly at low pressure (2–4 kbar) through fractional crystallization of clinopyroxene and olivine ± magnetite, at moderately hydrated (H2O = 0·5–1 wt %) and QFM (quartz–fayalite–magnetite) to QFM + 1 fO2 conditions. Basalts from Ngaoundere (Miocene to Quaternary) and from the early activity (31–14 Ma) of the Western Highlands have incompatible trace element and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions similar to those of oceanic Cameroon Line basalts, pointing to a similar asthenospheric mantle source. By contrast, the late (15–4 Ma) Western Highlands basanites and alkali basalts have anomalously high concentrations of Sr, Ba and P, and low concentrations of Zr, which are exclusive features of continental Cameroon basalts. The genesis of these latter magmas is consistent with derivation from an incompatible element enriched, amphibole-bearing lithospheric mantle source. Western Highlands basalts show a continuous spectrum from high to low Sr–Ba–P compositions, and may result from variable amounts of mixing between melts derived from an anhydrous lherzolite source (asthenospheric component) and melts from an amphibole-bearing peridotite source (lithospheric HSr component). New 40Ar/39Ar ages for Mts Oku and Bambouto basalts, combined with previous 40Ar/39Ar and K/Ar ages of basaltic and silicic volcanics, and with volcanic stratigraphy, suggest a NE–SW younging of the peak magmatic activity in the Western Highlands. This SW younging trend, extending from the Oligocene volcanism in northern Cameroon (e.g. Mt Oku) to the still active Mt Cameroon, suggests that the African plate is moving above a deep-seated mantle thermal anomaly. 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