Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Ortsekskii

stripes

Occurrence number: 
136-03-046
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
South Baikal sub-province
Location: 
Longitude: 105.93, Latitude: 50.5
Carbonatite: 
No

Several outcrops of nepheline syenite occur within biotite syenites.

Age: 
Mesozoic – by analogy with other nepheline syenites of the region.
References: 

KUZNETSOVA, F.V. 1975. Nepheline syenites of the margin of the Borgoi depression. Nauka, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. 92 pp.

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