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This intrusion forms prominent steep-sided hills on either side of the Paraguay River (see 130-00-002 Cerro Boggiani). It is surrounded by Recent sediments, but has not been mapped in detail. It consists principally of nepheline syenite (foyaite) with aegirine-augite, biotite, amphibole and sometimes sodalite. A pyroxene syenite is thought to form the northern part of the mass, but has not been mapped. Essexite, shonkinite, phonolite and bostonite have also been described.
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BUSHEE, J.M. 1974. Potassium-argon ages of some alkaline rocks from southern Brazil.Thesis (unpublished), University of California, Berkeley. 145 pp.
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