stripes
Occurrence number:
155-00-009
Country:
Sudan
Location:
Longitude: 36.17, Latitude: 21.63
Carbonatite:
No
An elongate intrusion of 8x1.5 km is composed principally of a granophyric biotite granite but riebeckite granite is present in the central area.
Age:
A K-Ar whole rock determination on syenite gave 592 Ma (Vail, 1976).
References:
GASS, I.G. 1955. The geology of the Dunganab area, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. M.Sc. thesis, University of Leeds. 100 pp. (unpublished)VAIL, J.R. 1976. Location and geochronology of igneous ring-complexes and related rocks in north-east Africa. Geologisches Jahrbuch, B20: 97-114.
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