stripes
Occurrence number:
174-00-143
Country:
United States
Region:
North Carolina and Virginia
Location:
Longitude: -81.5, Latitude: 36.5
Carbonatite:
No
The Mount Rogers magma series includes mafic to felsic plutonic and volcanic rocks in which silica-oversaturated units have peralkaline affinities. Barker (1974, p. 161) indicates the presence of aegirine and/or riebeckite granite and rhyolite.
References:
BARKER, D.S. 1974. Alkaline rocks of North America. In H. Sorensen (ed.). The Alkaline Rocks. John Wiley, London: 160-71.
RANKIN, D.W. 1967. Magmatic activity and orogeny in the Blue Ridge Province of the southern Appalachian Mountain system in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia. (abstract). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 1967 Annual Meetings: 181
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