Ferrocarbonatites in the Amba Dongar Diatreme, Gujarat, India
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Carbonatite Research Centre, Amba Dongar, Kadipani - 390 117, Gujarat
S. G. Viladkar
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-018-0972-0Abstract
In the Amba Dongar diatreme, "ferrocarbonatite” is not a single unit of late differentiate of calciocarbonatite magma but it is a family with variation on field occurrence, mineralogy and chemistry of each unit. The family includes dikes of ankeritic carbonatites (phase I and II), plugs of ankeritic carbonatite within sövite ring dike, dikes of sideritic carbonatite in ankeritic carbonatite plug and rödberg veins. Their intrusive relations are very clear in the field and each phase has characteristic mineralogy and trace and REE geochemistry. According to the nomenclature suggested by Harmer and Gittins (1997) majority of "ferrocarbonatites” of Amba Dongar plot in field of "ferruginous calciocarbonatite” and only siderite and rödberg plot in the field of "ferrocarbonatite”. Within these family members, their trace and REE show clear increase from early phase to last phase of sideritic carbonatite. The present short communication discusses various aspects of "ferrocarbonatites”.
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