Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Verkhne-Uliglinskii

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Occurrence number: 
136-03-020
Country: 
Russia
Region: 
Vitim subprovince
Location: 
Longitude: 113.75, Latitude: 55.05
Carbonatite: 
No

A series of stocks, up to 1.7 x 2.0 km, dykes and minor lens-like bodies of alkaline rocks are located over an area of 4.8 x 4.9 km and cut schists and marbles. Nepheline syenites comprise 11 small (0.1-08 km2) stocks and dykes, some cutting schists and others occupying the central parts of peralkaline syenite intrusions. Peralkaline syenites are subordinate and form small stocks, dykes, lenses of 550-60 x 200-250 m. The youngest rocks are dykes up to 1.5 m thick of fine-grained granite which cut all the sedimentary and magmatic rocks of the region. Chemical analyses will be found in Sharackshinov (1984a).

References: 

SHARACKSHINOV, A.O. 1984a. Alkaline magmatism of the Vitim Plateau. Nauka, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. 183 pp.

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