scholarly journals Age and isotopic fingerprints of some plutonic rocks in the Wiborg rapakivi granite batholith with special reference to the dark wiborgite of the Ristisaari Island

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.T. Rämö ◽  
V. Turkki ◽  
I. Mänttäri ◽  
A. Heinonen ◽  
K. Larjamo ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 486 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Bulakh ◽  
Paavo Härmä ◽  
Elena Panova ◽  
Olavi Selonen

AbstractRapakivi granites were in use during the Middle Ages in Finland. Their most spectacular use, however, was for structures built in St Petersburg between 1760 and 1917. Remarkable examples are the majestic and slender Alexander Column and the 112 columns of St Isaac's Cathedral. All Rapakivi granite was extracted from the Wiborg Rapakivi granite batholith in several quarries around the municipality of Virolahti in SE Finland (old Russia). Today, the 1640 Ma-old Wiborg batholith is the most important area for natural stone production in Finland and in the Leningrad region, Russian Federation. The main quarried stone varieties of Rapakivi granite (Baltic Brown, Baltic Green, Carmen Red, Karelia Red, Eagle Red and Balmoral Red) are regularly produced in large quantities in Finland for the global stone market due to the stone's unique qualities. Examples of applications in Rapakivi granite from Finland can be found in the USA, China, South Africa, the UK, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Spain and Germany as well as in Scandinavia and Russia. There are also quarries near Vyborg, the Russian Federation: Vozrozhdenie and Ala-Noskua.


2005 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
MINGGUO ZHAI ◽  
ZHIYAO NI ◽  
CHANG WHAN OH ◽  
JINGHUI GUO ◽  
SEON GYU CHOI

A large rapakivi granite batholith in the Neo-Archaean/Palaeoproterozoic Odesan complex, northeastern Gyeonggi massif, South Korea, has been dated at 1839±10 Ma using SHRIMP U–Pb analysis of zircons. The age, petrological and geochemical characteristics of this batholith are similar to those of the rapakivi granite batholiths exposed in the Rangnim massif of North Korea and in the Miyun–Chengde complex of North China. The country rocks of these rapakivi granite batholiths are also comparable; all are composed of granitic gneisses and banded iron formation (BIF)-bearing supracrustal rocks metamorphosed to amphibolite- to granulite-facies. This study provides new evidence for the suggestion that the Gyeonggi and Rangnim massifs may share an affinity with the Precambrian basement of the North China craton. The study provides new insight into the possible eastward extension of the Sulu orogenic belt in the Korean peninsula and further provides evidence to correlate the Korea basement to a possible global 2.1–1.8 Ga supercontinent.


1958 ◽  
Vol 64 (752) ◽  
pp. 250-257
Author(s):  
Ushio FUJIMOTO ◽  
Hidekata SIBATA ◽  
Hiroshi YOSHITAKE ◽  
Yasue OKI

2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Karell ◽  
Carl Ehlers ◽  
Meri-Liisa Airo ◽  
Olavi Selonen

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
S.G. Kryvdik ◽  
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O.V. Dubyna ◽  
V.M. Belskyy ◽  
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In spite of significant intensity and composition variability of dyke magmatism in the Ingul mega-block, in the Korsun- Novomyrhorod anorthosite-rapakivi granite pluton (KNP) dyke magmatism is restricted. To present day, dykes of basic composition have not been described in this pluton. Previously mentioned gabbro-diabases dykes or diabase porphyrites should be classified as medium rocks as well as they are enriched by SiO2, Na2O and K2O. The authors succeeded studied the dyke from the Nosachiv massif, which can be considered the only known dyke of basic composition in KNP. By chemical composition, this rock is similar to the Ti-enriched gabroids of KNP, but differs in the presence of high-Ti magnetite (not typical mineral in plutonic rocks of KNP), and in terms of SiO2 and Na2O + K2O it should be classified as subalkaline. Most of the dikes known in the KNP are mainly monzonites, monzosienites, less widespread syenites, granite dikes are quite rare too. As our studies have shown, in the previously described porphyry dykes diabase structure is not exihibited. Furthermore pyroxene content is the first percent, and a significant (or most) of them are probably xenogeneic. According to chemical composition such dykes should be classified as medium in composition, because the SiO2 content in them is in the range of 54-60 % and elevated content of K2O, often prevails over Na2O, by low MgO and higher TiO2 they are similar to gabroid of KNP. In these rocks, normative orthoclase and quartz are calculated in significant quantities. Therefore, we offer to consider these rocks as dyke analogues of monzonites (quartz-containing or quartz) and regard as monzonite porphyry. The significant distribution of monzonites and syenites and their dyke analogues denote clear pronounced monzonite-syenite trend of evolution in KNP.


2008 ◽  
Vol 95 (0) ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Fredrik Kareil ◽  
Carl Ehlers ◽  
Olavi Selonen ◽  
Meri-Liisa Airo

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