Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

Setup during HiTech AlkCarb: an online database of alkaline rock and carbonatite occurrences

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Occurrence number: 
136-19-001
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Taimyr Peninsula
Location: 
Longitude: 95.9, Latitude: 75.52
Carbonatite: 
No

This intrusion is located in the vicinity of the rivers Kolomeitseva and Mamont to the north of the Birranga ridge. It lies within a granitoid batholith of lower Devonian age in the contact zone of leucocratic granites. It is oval in plan, covers about 8 km2 and is composed of coarse-grained syenite, syenite porphyry, trachyte and alkaline syenites with nepheline, although the quantity of nepheline (up to 5%) in the last is low.

Age: 
The K-Ar method gave 200 Ma.
References: 

DAMINOVA, A.M. 1963. Alkaline rocks of central Taimyr. Trudy, Patricia Lumumba University of Peoples Friendship, Moscow, 3(1): 3-48.

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