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Leucitite from
Bucak Lava Field, Bucak District, Burdur Province, Turkey


Locality type:Lava Field
Classification
Type:Leucitite
Age information
Maximum recorded age:4.70 ± 0.25 Ma
Minimum recorded age:4.40 ± 0.22 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
14.70 ± 0.25 to 4.40 ± 0.22 MaPliocene - K-Ar
Sample references:
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Lefevre, C., Bellon, H., & Poisson, A. (1983). Presence de leucitites dans le volcanisme Pliocene de la region d'Isparta (Taurides Occidentales, Turquie). Comptes-rendus des s
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Leucitite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bucak Lava Field, Bucak District, Burdur Province, Turkey
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1357451
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1357451:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Lefevre, C., Bellon, H., & Poisson, A. (1983). Presence de leucitites dans le volcanisme Pliocene de la region d'Isparta (Taurides Occidentales, Turquie). Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2, Mécanique-physique, chimie, sciences de l'univers, sciences de la terre, 297(4), 367-372.
Çoban, H., & Flower, M. F. (2006). Mineral phase compositions in silica-undersaturated ‘leucite’lamproites from the Bucak area, Isparta, SW Turkey. Lithos, 89(3-4), 275-299.
Çoban, H., & Flower, M. F. (2007). Late Pliocene lamproites from Bucak, Isparta (southwestern Turkey): implications for mantle ‘wedge’evolution during Africa-Anatolian plate convergence. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 29(1), 160-176.
Prelević, D., Akal, C., Foley, S. F., Romer, R. L., Stracke, A., Van Den Bogaard, P. (2012) Ultrapotassic Mafic Rocks as Geochemical Proxies for Post-collisional Dynamics of Orogenic Lithospheric Mantle: the Case of Southwestern Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Petrology, 53 (5) 1019-1055 doi:10.1093/petrology/egs008
Fritschle, Tobias, Prelević, Dejan, Foley, Stephen F., Jacob, Dorrit E. (2013) Petrological characterization of the mantle source of Mediterranean lamproites: Indications from major and trace elements of phlogopite. Chemical Geology, 353. 267-279 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.006
 
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