Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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Hicks Dome

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Occurrence number: 
174-00-112
Country: 
United States
Region: 
Illinois
Location: 
Longitude: -88.5, Latitude: 37.5
Carbonatite: 
No

Numerous dykes and sills of micaperidotite and lamprophyre and bodies of intrusive breccia are found across the Hicks Dome. Intrusive breccias in one body (Grants Intrusive) contain fragments of aegirine-bearing syenite (Grogan and Bradbury, 1968, p. 375). The matrix of this rock is dolomite, but whether it is of secondary or primary origin is not clear. A nepheline-feldspar rock has also been found (op. cit., p. 376) which contains an amphibole and aegirine-augite.

Age: 
K-Ar on biotite from mica peridotite gave 252 ± 13 and 269 ± 13 Ma (Zartman et al., 1967, Table 2).
References: 

GROGAN, R.M. and BRADBURY, J.C. 1968. Fluorite-zinc-lead deposits of the Illinois-Kentucky mining district. In Ore deposits of the United States, 1933-1967. J.D.Ridge (ed). The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc., New York: 370-99.
ZARTMAN, R.E., BROCK, M.R., HEYL, A.V. and THOMAS, H.H. 1967. K-Ar and Rb-Sr ages of some alkalic intrusive rocks from central and eastern United States. American Journal of Science, 265: 848-70

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