stripes
Occurrence number:
136-02-004
Country:
Russia
Region:
Anabar
Location:
Longitude: 116.5, Latitude: 70.85
Carbonatite:
Yes
In this area to the south of the Tomtor complex (No 3) and, like Tomtor, located on the Udzhinsky rise, there are a number of small dykes, veins and stock-like bodies of alkaline ultrabasic rocks, nepheline syenites and carbonatites. The last are represented by calcite, dolomite and ankerite-siderite varieties.
References:
PORSHNEV, G.I. and STEPANOV, L.L. 1980. Geological structure and phosphate-bearing rocks of the Tomtor massif (north-western Yakutia). In Alkaline magmatism and apatite-bearing rocks of north Siberia. 84-100. Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Geologii Arktiki, Leningrad.
SHAKHOTKO, L.I. and BAGDASAROV, Yu.A. 1983. A new carbonatite massif of the Anabar Shield. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 273: 186-9.
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