Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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Mufwa

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Occurrence number: 
155-00-090
Country: 
Sudan
Location: 
Longitude: 34.05, Latitude: 10.45
Carbonatite: 
No

This is a plug of syenite of 1x0.8 km associated with which are numerous dykes. An outer leucocratic quartz syenite gradually merges inwards into a syenite. They are coarse rocks of perthite, sodic plagioclase, arfvedsonite and biotite with accessory titanite, zircon and apatite. The dykes include dolerite and camptonitic lamprophyre.

References: 

VAIL, J.R., HUGHES, D.J., ABDEL MAGID, A.E.M., ABDEL RAHMAN, E.M. and TOUM, I.M. 1986. Geology of southern Blue Nile Province, Sudan. Bulletin of the Geology and Mineral Resources Department, Republic of the Sudan, 37: 1-32.

Location: 
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