The origin of spheroidal patterns of weathering in the Pados-Tundra mafic-ultramafic complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia

• Published in: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
• Main Authors: A.Y. Barkov, A.A. Nikiforov, T.A.A. Halkoaho, J.P. Konnunaho
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of Finland 2016
• Subjects: spheroidal weathering; chemical weathering; mafic-ultramafic rocks; Pados-Tundra complex; Kola Peninsula; Fennoscandian Shield; Russia; Geology; QE1-996.5; Pados; Fennoscandian; kola peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17741/bgsf/88.2.004; https://doaj.org/article/216a1d3fb73a40f98abb74649aa3b387

We document a new and unusual occurrence of patterns of protruding spheroidal weathering developed in a dunitic rock of the Pados-Tundra mafic-ultramafic complex of Early Proterozoic age, Kola Peninsula, Russia. It provides an example similar to that reported recently from a mineralized harzburgite...