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Alkaline Rocks: Economic and Geodynamic Significance through Geological Time

Product code: SP551

Print publication date: 23/07/2025

Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Mineral and ore deposits, New

Type: Book (Hardback)

Binding: Hardback

ISBN: 9781786206275

Author/Edited by: Edited by R. Pandey, A. Pandey, L. Krmíček, C. Cucciniello, and D. Müller

Weight: 1.05kg

Number of pages: 416

Online publication date: 11/07/2025

Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/551/1

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Special Publication 551

Alkaline igneous rocks have a relative excess of alkalis over silica. Most are silica-undersaturated and contain normative nepheline and primary feldspathoids. Although alkaline rocks are very rare, their diverse mineralogical and chemical composition accounts for a plethora of igneous rock names. They are recorded in continental, post-collisional and island-arc settings, as well as along rift zones. 

Alkaline rocks commonly include a wide variety of rocks, including alkali basalts, tephrites, phonolites, trachytes and their intrusive equivalents, lamprophyres, and carbonatites. Their study significantly contributes to the interpretation of mantle evolution and geodynamic settings of ancient terranes. Additionally, alkaline rocks may host important precious- and rare-metal mineralization.  

This Special Publication presents new data on alkaline rocks from different terranes globally and uses their mineralogy and geochemical fingerprints in order to elucidate their petrogenesis, tectonic settings and mineralization potential. This volume is not only of interest to igneous petrologists, but also to exploration geologists prospecting for precious- and rare-metal mineralization worldwide. 

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Pandey, R., Krmíček, L., Müller, D., Pandey, A. and Cucciniello, C. Alkaline rocks and their economic and geodynamic significance through geological time 

 

Alkaline rocks and their petrogenesis and geodynamic significance worldwide 

Chattopadhaya, S., Ghosh, B., Liu, C.-Z., Bandyopadhyay, D., Roy, S., Dhar, A., Koley, M. and Kumar, D. Intraplate alkali basalts related to end-Cretaceous Deccan magmatism: implications for tectonomagmatic processes 

Randive, K., Jawadand, S., Meshram, T., Sahu, M., Belyatsky, B., Dora, M. L., Meshram, R., Kumar, J. V., Dandekar, S., Raut, T., Korakoppa, M. and Bhutani, R. Lamprophyres from the Chhota Udaipur alkaline–carbonatite sub-province, Deccan Large Igneous Province, India: implication for petrogenesis and crustal structure 

Sridhar, N., Reddy, R. M., Pandey, R., Naskar, S., Randive, K. and Singh, K. M. Mineral chemistry of chrome-diopside bearing lamprophyre from Mesoproterozoic Settupalle igneous complex of Prakasam alkaline province: insights on the magma dynamics at shallow lithospheric mantle beneath the NE margin of the Cuddapah basin, Southern India 

Rosa, P. A. S., Ruberti, E., Enrich, G. E. R., Azzone, R. G., Vasconcelos, P. and Thiede, D. S. The Bom Repouso Agpaitic Suite (MG, Brazil): geology, geochemistry and geochronology 

Chmyz, L., Azzone, R. G., Rosa, P. A. S., da Silva, J. C. L., Tarazona, L. M. C. and Monteiro e Silva, M. Recycled crystal population proving complex plumbing systems: an archetypal example from Cretaceous alkaline magmatism in SE Brazil 

Enrich, G. E. R., Ruberti, E., Azzone, R. G., Rosa, P. A. S. and Gomes, C. B. Influence of intensive parameters on the mafic paragenesis of nepheline syenites: the Monte de Trigo alkaline suite, southeastern Brazil 

Mohanty, S., Ravy, D. T., Zaitsev, V. A. and Ghatak, A. Decoding apatite in volcanic carbonatitic breccia from Mongra, NW of Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, Gujarat, India: insights to genesis and rare earth element budgets 

Irshad, S., Mohanty, S., Pdah, D. S. M. and Ghatak, A. A mineralogical–geochemical–petrological study of deformed carbonatites from Padu–Nongryngkoh Jaintia and East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, northeastern India 

Meshram, T. and Randive, K. On the metasomatism of carbonated peridotite mantle of the Sevattur Carbonatite Complex, southern India: insights from phlogopite and apatite compositions 

 

Alkaline rocks and their association with precious- and rare-metal mineralization worldwide 

Soloviev, S. G. Late Palaeozoic high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic series magmatism and related W(–Mo–Cu–Au) metallogeny of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, Central Asia 

Dwyer, R. C., Forster, D. B., Simpson, B. P., Blevin, P. L. and Huang, H. Relationships between high-K magmas and Cu–Au porphyry deposits in the Macquarie Arc, Australia 

McLemore, V. T., Iverson, N., Owen, E. J., Kelley, S., Zimmerer, M. and Kelley, R. Diversity of critical minerals deposits in the North American Cordilleran alkaline-igneous belt in Southern Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico 

Wu, M., Qiu, K., Diao, X., Ma, J., Yu, H., An, M., Zhi, C., Krmíček, L. and Deng, J. The giant Baerzhe rare-earth-element–Nb–Zr–Be deposit, Inner Mongolia, China, an Early Cretaceous analogue of the Strange Lake rare-metal deposit, Quebec 

Jin, C., Zhang, Z. and Cheng, Z. Carbonatites and related mineralization: an overview 

Wyman, D. Lamprophyres, gold and orogenies: a mineral systems perspective 

Schirra, M., Zajacz, Z. and Müller, D. Magnetite geochemistry of giant alkalic-type epithermal gold deposits: insights into the magmatic evolution of mineralized alkaline systems 

 

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