Granites and Earth Evolution.
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2.1. Stops (see page12 - Fig. 6):

Stop 1.

(a) One of the latest plutonic bodies of gabbroids in coarse-grained quartz syenites;

(b) accumulation of composite leucogranite-basite dikes that cut both gabbroids and quartz syenites, and apophyses of middle-grained granites (granites of 2-nd phase);

(c) intrusive contact of quartz syenites and granites.

Stop 2. Contact zone of gabbroid body:

(a) quenching zone along marginal part of gabbro body and neighboring zone of remelting in host coarse-grained quartz syenites with evidence of magmatic mixture;

(b) composite dike in quartz syenites near contact zone; basite enclaves are oriented along strike of dikes, locally, with signs of plastic deformations.

Stop 3. Railway hollow:

The cutting body of gabbroids in quartz syenites with signs of melting. Composite leucogranite (aplite)-basite dike more than 5 metres thick with pillow-like basite enclaves up to 2 m in size that cuts midddle-grained gabbros.

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