Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Evolution of pyroxene in peralkaline magmatic system: An example of an agpaitic syenite dyke complex and the Niva intrusion, Kola Peninsula

  • Short Communications
  • Published:
Geochemistry International Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The paper presents pioneering data on the composition of pyroxenes and the distribution of trace elements in this mineral in small geological bodies that were formed by single magma injections and their subsequent rapid crystallization: the Niva intrusion and an agpaitic syenite dyke. The pyroxene is highly alkaline and shows continuous compositional trends with an increase in the aegirine concentration. The Ti concentrations of the pyroxene are much higher than in pyroxenes in agpaitic syenites in other alkaline complexes. In spite of the fact that the pyroxene is hosted in small bodies, the evolution of these pyroxenes was similar to that of pyroxenes in the Lovozero and Khibina alkaline massifs.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • M. I. Akimenko, L. N. Kogarko, N. V. Sorokhtina, N. N. Kononkova, and V. P. Mamontov, “A new occurrence of alkaline magmatism on the Kola Peninsula: an agpaitic dyke in the Kandalaksha Region,” Dokl. Earth Sci. 458 (1), 1125–1129 (2014).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. A. Arzamastsev, F. Bea, V. N. Glaznev, L. Arzamastseva, and P. Montero, “Paleozoic Kola alkaline province: composition of primary mantle magmas and conditions of magma formation,” Ross. Zh. Nauk Zemle 3 (1), 1–32 (2001).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. A. Arzamastsev, B. V. Belyatsky, and L. V. Arzamastseva, “Agpaitic magmatism in the northeastern Baltic Shield: a study of the Niva intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Russia,” Lithos 51, 27–46 (2000).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • R. J. Brousse and P. H. Ranqon, “Crystallization trends of pyroxenes from agpaitic phonolites (Cantal, France),” Mineral. Mag. 48, 39–45 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. R. Chakhmouradian, “High-field elements in carbonatitic rocks: Geochemistry, crystal chemistry and significance for constraining the sources of carbonatites,” Chem. Geol. 235, 138–160 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. K. Ferguson, “The natural occurrence of aegirine–neptunite solid solution,” Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 60, 247–253 (1977).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. N. Kogarko, “Geochemistry of fractionation of coherent elements (Zr and Hf) during the profound differentiation of peralkaline magmatic systems: a case study of the Lovozero Complex,” Geochem. Int. 54 (1), 1–6 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. N. Kogarko, C. T. Williams, and A. R. Wooley, “Compositional evolution and cryptic variation in pyroxenes of the peralkaline Lovozero intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Russia,” Mineral. Mag. 70, 347–359 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. S. Korzhinskii, “Acid–base interaction of components in silicate melts and direction of cotectic lines,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 128 (2), 383–386 (1959).

    Google Scholar 

  • L. M. Larsen, “Clinopyroxenes and coexisting mafic minerals from the alkaline Ilimaussaq intrusion, South Greenland,” J. Petrol. 17, 258–290 (1976).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • U. Mann, M. Marks, G. Markl, “Influence of oxygen fugacity on mineral compositions in peralkaline melts: The Katzenbuckel volcano, Southwest Germany,” Lithos 91, 262–285 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Marks and G. Markl, “Fractionation and assimilation processes in the alkaline augite syenite unite of the Ilimaussaq intrusion, South Greenland, as deduced from phase equilibria,” J. Petrol. 10, 1947–1969 (2001).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • E. Njonfang and C. Moreau, “The mafic mineralogy of the Pande Massif, Tikar Plain, Cameroon,” Mineral. Mag. 64, 525–537 (2000).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Stephenson, “Alkali clinopyroxenes from nepheline syenites of the South Qoroq Centre, South Greenland,” Lithos 5, 187–201 (1972).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • S. S. Sun and W. F. McDonough, “Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes,” Geol. Soc., London, Sp. Publ. 42, 313–345 (1989).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • V. N. Yakovenchuk, G. Yu. Ivanyuk, Ya. A. Pakhomovskii, Yu. P. Men’shikov, N. G. Konopleva, and Yu. A. Korchak, “Pyroxenes of the Khibiny alkaline massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia), Zap. Ross. Mineral O-va 2, 96–113 (2008).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKhI), Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    M. I. Filina, L. N. Kogarko & N. N. Kononkova

Authors
  1. M. I. Filina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. L. N. Kogarko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. N. N. Kononkova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to M. I. Filina.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © M.I. Filina, L.N. Kogarko, N.N. Kononkova, 2017, published in Geokhimiya, 2017, No. 7, pp. 653–659.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Filina, M.I., Kogarko, L.N. & Kononkova, N.N. Evolution of pyroxene in peralkaline magmatic system: An example of an agpaitic syenite dyke complex and the Niva intrusion, Kola Peninsula. Geochem. Int. 55, 663–668 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702917070035

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702917070035

Keywords

Search

Navigation