Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Bykhyt-North

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Occurrence number: 
136-14-025
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Dalbykha group of intrusions
Location: 
Longitude: 101.93, Latitude: 70.32
Carbonatite: 
No

Lying between Dalbykha and the Bykhyt-East occurrence Bykhyt-North consists of a central stock of melanephelinite which is surrounded by a ring-dyke of nepheline syenite. The melanephelinite comprises 70-80% clinopyroxene with small amounts of olivine (up to 5%), titanomagnetite, phlogopite, apatite, titanite and perovskite.

References: 

EGOROV, L.S. 1969. The melilite rocks of the Maimecha-Kotui province. Nedra, Leningrad. 247 pp.

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