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Calcite from
Karaçayır Syenite Intrusion, Sivas District, Sivas Province, Turkey


Locality type:Intrusion
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Karaçayır Syenite Intrusion, Sivas District, Sivas Province, Turkey
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:789599
Long-form Identifier:1:3:789599:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
69.1km (42.9 miles) ⓘTopçam Mountain, Tokat Province, Turkey
References
Schuiling, R. D. (1961). Formation of Pegmatitic Carbonatite in a Syenite–Marble Contact. Nature, 192(4809), 1280-1280.
Boztuğ, D., Jonckheere, R., Wagner, G. A., Erçin, A. I., & Yeğingil, Z. (2007). Titanite and zircon fission-track dating resolves successive igneous episodes in the formation of the composite Kaçkar batholith in the Turkish Eastern Pontides. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96(5), 875-886.
Alan F. Cooper, Durmus Boztuğ, J. Michael Palin, Candace E. Martin, Mihoko Numata (2011) Petrology and petrogenesis of carbonatitic rocks in syenites from central Anatolia, Turkey. Contrib Mineral Petrol 161:811–828.
Çimen, O., Ağrılı, H., Kuebler, C., Simonetti, A., Corcoran, L., Simonetti, S., ... & Dönmez, C. (2021). Geochemical, isotopic and U-Pb geochronological investigation of the Late Cretaceous Karaçayır carbonatite (Sivas, Turkey): Insights into mantle sources within a post-collisional tectonic setting. Ore Geology Reviews, 104650.
 
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