Petrogenesis of the Eudialyte Complex of the Lovozero Alkaline Massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Julia A. Mikhailova, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ayya V. Bazai, Victor N. Yakovenchuk
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Lovozero Alkaline Massif; fractional crystallization; fenitization; nepheline; alkali feldspar; clinopyroxene; amphibole; eudialyte; Kola Peninsula; Lovozero; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min9100581

The Lovozero Alkaline Massif intruded through the Archaean granite-gneiss and Devonian volcaniclastic rocks about 360 million years ago, and formed a large (20 × 30 km) laccolith-type body, rhythmically layered in its lower part (the Layered Complex) and indistinctly layered and enriched in eudialyt...