Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Vysokaya

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Occurrence number: 
136-13-019
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Kuznetsk-Minusinsk
Location: 
Longitude: 92.67, Latitude: 54.42
Carbonatite: 
No

This intrusion occurs amongst limestones and volcanic rocks of Cambrian age. Pink, coarse-grained, peralkaline syenites are the dominant rocks and consist predominantly of alkali feldspar, together with a little nepheline and aegirine. Small bodies of aegirine-nepheline syenite and dykes of fine-grained syenite are present in the intrusion. Nepheline is replaced, as a rule, by an aggregate consisting of secondary hydromica, cancrinite and zeolite.

References: 

LUCHITSKY, I.V. 1960. Volcanism and tectonics of Devonian depressions of the Minusinsk intermontane trough. Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 275 pp.

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