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Occurrence number:
155-00-086
Country:
Sudan
Location:
Longitude: 30.08, Latitude: 10.62
Carbonatite:
No
Jebel Lado lies between the Masakin Hills (No. 155-00-085) and Jebel Buram (No. 155-00-087) and is a group of hills composed dominantly of syenite. Peralkaline quartz syenites are present and two of the hills are of volcanic rocks. (Note also the intrusion of nepheline syenite with the same name - No. 155-00-096).
References:
CURTIS, P. and BRINKMANN, K. 1985. The geology of younger intrusive alkali complexes in the southwestern Nuba Mountains, Sudan. Geologisches Jahrbuch, 63: 3-41.
Map:
Fig. 3_291 Alkaline intrusions of the southwest Nuba Mountains (after Curtis and Brinkmann, 1985, Geological Reconnaissance map, 1:250,000).
Location: