Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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Kobarzinskii

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Occurrence number: 
136-13-028
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Kuznetsk-Minusinsk
Location: 
Longitude: 87.55, Latitude: 52.58
Carbonatite: 
No

At Kobarzinskii peralkaline and feldspathoidal syenites cut volcanic and sedimentary sequences including limestones of Cambrian age. The peralkaline syenites consist of alkali feldspar (57-69%) with biotite (up to 6%) and magnetite; there has been extensive replacement by muscovite which may form as much as 32% of the rock. Nepheline syenite has been observed in alluvial blocks and consists of microcline perthite (44-59%), nepheline (17-43%), aegirine-augite (up to 7%), biotite (up to 8%), sodalite, cancrinite, muscovite and minor apatite and titanite. Feldspathoid syenite contains very little nepheline and clinopyroxene, but is enriched in cancrinite and sodalite.

References: 

ZABOLOTNIKOVA, I.I. and KHVATOV, V.V. 1963b. Nepheline and sodalite-cancrinite rocks of the Kobarzinsk locality. In I.K. Bazenov and Yu.D. Skobelev (eds) The geology and petrography of nepheline rocks of Kuznetsk Alatau. 177-93. Gosgeoltekhizdat, Moscow.

Map: 
Fig. 2_167. Kobarzinskii (after Zabolotnikova and Khvatov, 1963, Fig. 1).
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