Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Sitsinskii

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Occurrence number: 
136-16-007
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Primorye
Location: 
Longitude: 133.33, Latitude: 43.48
Carbonatite: 
No

This symmetrically shaped intrusion, with an area of about 25 km2, is formed predominantly of aegirine-riebeckite granites.
In the outer parts of the intrusion the rocks are intensively albitized and alkaline pegmatites are present, while throughout there are numerous veins of grorudite and solvsbergite. The alkaline granites are formed of quartz (15-40%) and mainly perthitic K-feldspar with 20-25% of dark coloured minerals, predominantly riebeckite and aegirine. Accessory minerals are aenigmatite, astrophyllite, titanomagnetite, zircon, xenotime, chevkinite and bastnaesite.

Age: 
Late Cretaceous - from stratigraphic evidence (Kotlyur, 1968).
References: 

BEVZENKO, P.E. 1971. Types of granite intrusion associations from the south of the Far East. In S.S. Zimin (ed) Magmatic complexes of the Far East. 29-53. Far East Scientific Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok.
KOTLYUR, S.G. 1968. North-east and Far East. In Yu.I. Polovinkina (ed) Geological structures of the USSR. 3 Magmatism. Nedra, Moscow. 640 pp.

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