Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Jebel Mun

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Occurrence number: 
155-00-060
Country: 
Sudan
Location: 
Longitude: 22.72, Latitude: 14.17
Carbonatite: 
No

This quartz syenite intrusion is approximately 8 km in diameter, forms a hill, and is intruded into granite gneisses. The syenite consists of microcline perthite, quartz, aegirine and sodic amphibole; the last occurs as discrete crystals and cores to aegirine.

References: 

LOTFI, M. 1963. The geology of a part of Western Darfur. Journal of Geology of the United Arab Republic, 7: 89-103.

Location: 
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