Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Saliepskii

stripes

Occurrence number: 
086-00-014
Country: 
Kyrgyzstan
Location: 
Longitude: 70.8, Latitude: 39.75
Carbonatite: 
No

This stock of about 4 km2 is composed of subalkaline gabbroids (monzonite and gabbro-monzonite) and peralkaline syenites. There are dykes of lamprophyre.

Age: 
Geological evidence indicates a Permian age.
References: 

SHINKAREV, N.F. 1966. Upper Palaeozoic magmatism of Turkestan-Alay. Leningrad University Publishers, Leningrad. 152 pp.

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