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A lava flow with a maximum thickness of 20 m outcrops over a semicircular area less than 1 km in diameter, 4.5 km southeast of Volta Redonda. It is associated with sediments of the Resenda Formation. The rock, provisionally classified as an ankaramite, consists of phenocrysts of titanaugite and olivine in a matrix of pyroxene, plagioclase, opaques, nepheline and analcime.
C. B. Gomes, personal communication, 1985. RICCOMINI, C., MELO, M.S. de, CARNEIRO, C.D.R., ALMEIDA, F.F.M. de, MIOTO, J.A. and HASUI, Y. 1983. Sobre a occorencia de um derrame de ankaramito na bacia de Volta Redonda (RJ) e sua importancia na datacao das bacias tafrogenicas continentais do sudeste Brasileiro. Boletim de Resumos, Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia Nucleo de Sao Paulo, 4 Simposio Regional de Geologia: 23-4