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Phlogopite from
Samalpatti carbonatite complex, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India


Classification
Species:Phlogopite
Formula:KMg3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:828 ± 20 Ma
Minimum recorded age:689 ± 18 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
1828 ± 20 to 689 ± 18 MaNeoproterozoic - K-Ar
Sample references:
1 -
Moralev, V.M., Voronovskiy, S.N. & Borodin, L.S., 1975. New data on the age of carbonatite and syenite of southern India. Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Science, 222, 46-48.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Phlogopite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Samalpatti carbonatite complex, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1277657
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1277657:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Phlogopite
10.6km (6.6 miles) ⓘSevattur carbonatite complex, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India
14.3km (8.9 miles) ⓘSevathur Massif, Tirupattur District, Tamil Nadu, India
74.3km (46.2 miles) ⓘHogenakal, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India
83.2km (51.7 miles) ⓘSalem Complex, Omalur, Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
97.2km (60.4 miles) ⓘPakkanadu, Edapaddi, Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
References
Semenov, E. I., Gopal, V., & SUBRAMANIAN, V. (1971). A note on the occurrence of benstonite, a carbonate of calcium and barium from the carbonatite complex at Jogipatti, near Samalpatti, Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu. Current Science, 254-256.
Subramaniam, V., Viladkar, S. G., Upendran, R. (1978) Carbonatite Alkali Complex of Samalpatti Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 19 (5). 206-216
Srivastava, Rajesh K. (1998) Petrology of the Proterozoic Alkaline Carbonatite Complex of Samalpatti, District Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. Journal Geological Society of India, 51 (2). 233-244 doi:10.17491/jgsi/1998/510213
Ackerman, Lukáš, Magna, Tomáš, Rapprich, Vladislav, Upadhyay, Dewashish, Krátký, Ondřej, Čejková, Bohuslava, Erban, Vojtěch, Kochergina, Yulia V., Hrstka, Tomáš (2017) Contrasting petrogenesis of spatially related carbonatites from Samalpatti and Sevattur, Tamil Nadu, India. Lithos, 284. 257-275 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.029
 
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