Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Kurozekskii

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Occurrence number: 
084-00-042
Country: 
Kazakhstan
Location: 
Longitude: 77.58, Latitude: 48.5
Carbonatite: 
No

Intruded into Silurian sandstones this is a typical faulted intrusion extending for 8.5 km in a northwesterly direction but having a maximum width of only 750 m. There are peralkaline varieties of granite which have developed in the central part of the massif.

References: 

ZIRYANOV, V.N. 1969. Petrology of the metasomatically altered granitoids and alkaline rocks of the Chingizsky zone. Nauka, Moscow. 160 pp.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith