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This complex is developed within the Vedi-Azat volcanic formation. It consists exclusively of volcanic and subvolcanic intrusions including sills, dykes, laccoliths and small stocks, amongst which, in a central position, are a number of volcanic necks that are circular in section and up to 1 km2. The rocks of the suite comprise a series from alkali olivine basalts through trachyte and trachyandesite to leucite syenite porphyry and leucite phonolite.
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