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Gneiss from
Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Type:Gneiss
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gneiss data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1373628
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1373628:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Gneiss
52.9km (32.8 miles) ⓘPerusel'ka, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
58.7km (36.5 miles) ⓘKovdor Massif, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
98.3km (61.1 miles) ⓘKuru Vaara deposit, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
References
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Vartiainen, Heikki 1980. The petrography, mineralogy and petrochemistry of the Sokli karbonatite massif, Northern Finland. Geological Survey of Finland Bulletin 313
Albers, K.-H., Woolley, A.R., Garcia, D. & Sonnet, P. 1998. Development of new technology for utilisation of the unique Nb deposit at Sokli, Finland, for the European super-alloy industry.
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Mäkelä, Markky, Vartiainen, Heikki (1978) A study of sulfur isotopes in the Sokli multi-stage carbonatite (Finland) Chemical Geology, 21 (3) 257-265 doi:10.1016/0009-2541(78)90048-7
Vartiainen, H., Kresten, P., & Kafkas, Y. (1978). Alkaline lamprophyres from the Sokli complex, northern Finland. Bull. Geol. Soc. Finland, 50(1-2), 59-68.
Vartiainen, H., Paarma, H. (1979) Geological characteristics of the Sokli carbonatite complex, Finland. Economic Geology, 74 (5) 1296-1306 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.5.1296
Heinänen, K., & VARTIAINEN, H. (1981). Magnetite in Sokli carbonatite Massif and in Tulppio olivinite. Bull. Geol. Soc. Finland, 53, 83-90.
Lapin, A.V., Vartiainen, H. (1983) Orbicular and spherulitic carbonatites from Sokli and Vuorijärvi. Lithos, 16 (1) 53-60 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(83)90034-8
Vartiainen, H. (1989). The phosphate deposits of the Sokli Carbonatite Complex, Finland. In Phosphate deposits of the world. Phosphate rock resources (pp. 398-402).
Kramm, Ulrich (1993) Mantle components of carbonatites from the Kola Alkaline Province, Russia and Finland: A Nd - Sr study. European Journal of Mineralogy, 5 (5) 985-990 doi:10.1127/ejm/5/5/0985
Kramm, U., Kogarko, L.N., Kononova, V.A., Vartiainen, H. (1993) The Kola Alkaline Province of the CIS and Finland: Precise RbSr ages define 380–360 Ma age range for all magmatism. Lithos, 30 (1) 33-44 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(93)90004-v
Ingrid, H.-K. (1998) Rare earth elements in sövitic carbonatites and their mineral phases. Journal of Petrology, 39 (11). 2105-2121 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.11-12.2105
Lee, M. J., Garcia, D., Moutte, J., Wall, F., Williams, C. T., Woolley, A. R., & Stanley, C. J. (1999). Pyrochlore and whole rock chemistry of carbonatites and phoscorites at Sokli, Finland. Pp. 651-653 in: Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing (CJ Stanley et al., editors), 1.
Lee, M. J., Garcia, D., Moutte, J., Williams, C. T., & Wall, F. (2004). Carbonatites and phoscorites from the Sokli Complex, Finland. Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine: the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province”, eds. F. Wall and AN Zaitev, The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 133-162.
LEE, MI JUNG, LEE, JONG IK, GARCIA, DANIEL, MOUTTE, JAQUES, WILLIAMS, C. TERRY, WALL, FRANCES, KIM, YEADONG (2006) Pyrochlore chemistry from the Sokli phoscorite-carbonatite complex, Finland: Implications for the genesis of phoscorite and carbonatite association. GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, 40 (1) 1-13 doi:10.2343/geochemj.40.1
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Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4
 
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