Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

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

Atsutla Range

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Occurrence number: 
031-00-013
Country: 
Canada
Region: 
British Columbia
Location: 
Longitude: -131.58, Latitude: 59.25
Carbonatite: 
No

Several peralkaline dykes up to a metre thick have been described from the central part of the Atsutla Range. The dykes are banded and contain abundant, zoned spherulites up to 6 mm in diameter of alkali feldspar, albite, quartz, riebeckite and aegirine. Rock analyses are available.

References: 

MATHEWS, W.H. and WATSON, K.D. 1953. Spherulitic alkali rhyolite dikes in the Atsutla Range, northern British Columbia. American Mineralogist, 38: 432-47.

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