Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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Tuluyul'

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Occurrence number: 
136-13-012
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Kuznetsk-Minusinsk
Location: 
Longitude: 88.18, Latitude: 55.08
Carbonatite: 
No

This small alkaline intrusion is confined to the contact zone of lower Cambrian limestones and upper Cambrian-lower Ordovician granitoids. The intrusion is predominantly composed of alkaline gabbro, theralite and feldspathic ijolite but nepheline syenite also outcrops in the eastern and northern parts of the intrusion and is partly replaced by liebenerite and altered to liebenerite syenite of feldspar, liebenerite (30%), albite and relicts of coloured minerals. Dykes of various compositions are known including diabase, lamprophyre, nepheline syenite and microsyenite.

Age: 
K-Ar on nepheline syenite gave 384 Ma (Andreeva, 1968).
References: 

ANDREEVA, E.D. 1968. Alkaline magmatism of Kuznetsk Alatau. Nauka, Moscow. 169 pp.
DOVGAL' V.N. and SHIROKIH, V.A. 1980. History of the development of the high alkaline magmatism of the Kuznetsk Alatau. Proceedings of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Nauka, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. 457. 216 pp.
SKOBELEV, Yu.D. 1963. The Tuluyul massif of alkaline rocks. InI.K. Bazenov and Yu.D. Skobelev (eds) The geology and petrography of nepheline rocks of Kuznetsk Alatau. 126-34. Gosgeoltekhizdat, Moscow.

Map: 
Fig. 2_158. Tuluyul' (after Skobelev, 1963, Fig. 1 including data of P.V. Osipov and N.A. Makarenko).
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