Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Santa Rosa

stripes

Occurrence number: 
174-00-047
Country: 
United States
Region: 
California
Location: 
Longitude: -122.7, Latitude: 38.43
Carbonatite: 
No

A peralkaline rhyolite from Santa Rosa with phenocrysts of sanidine, anorthoclase, quartz and aenigmatite in a groundmass of quartz, sanidine, mossy patches and needles of arfvedsonite and minor aegirine, is illustrated in Williams et al. (1954, p. 127).

References: 

WILLIAMS, H., TURNER, F.J. and GILBERT, C.M. 1954. Petrography: an introduction to the study of rocks in thin section. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco. 406pp

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