Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Dalbykha-South

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Occurrence number: 
136-14-024
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Dalbykha group of intrusions
Location: 
Longitude: 102, Latitude: 70.3
Carbonatite: 
No

This includes three distinct bodies, which are situated 1.5 km south-southeast from the Dalbykha complex. They range in size from 0.1x0.2 to 0.3x1 km. The central part of the largest intrusion is composed of olivine melanephelinite, which contains 30-65% of clinopyroxene, 5-20% of olivine and minor titanomagnetite, phlogopite, apatite, titanite and perovskite. An ijolite dyke forms a ring around the intrusion which, in places, contains xenoliths of melteigite and fine-grained olivinite. The ijolites are cut by dykes of alkaline syenite.

References: 

BUTAKOVA, E.L. and EGOROV, L.S. 1962. The Meimecha-Kotui complex of formations of alkaline and ultrabasic rocks. In Petrography of Eastern Siberia. 1: 417-589. Izd-vo AN SSSR, Moscow.
EGOROV, L.S. 1969. The melilite rocks of the Maimecha-Kotui province. Nedra, Leningrad. 247 pp.

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