EXCURSION 'Alkaline rocks of the Azov area'

Post-conference field trip to the Mariupol Massif, Azov area, from 22 to 24 September 2010. Preliminary price of the excursion is 150-200 Eur

Geological setting of Oktyabrsky Massif is available in PDF version:
Field registration fee will include transportation to/from Donetsk, 1 night in the hotel, bus excursion, visits to private open pits, geological and general guide presentations and meals during the trip
Leaders: Stepan Kryvdik, Leonid Shumlyanskyy, Sergiy Strekozov
Duration: 2 days, leaving from Kyiv to Donetsk by train on 21 September, two days in Azov area staying overnight at hotel in Donetsk, returning to Kyiv on 24 September by train. Return flights can be arranged directly from Donetsk international airport. It is only a preliminary schedule
Length: ca. 200 km (bus excursion from Donetsk)
Max. number of participants: 35

Demands: nothing specific
Accommodation in Donetsk: details will be announced later

Specific focus and preliminary daily program:
Day 1. Open pit in Donske village. Pit located within the Oktyabrskyy massif of alkaline rocks. Open pit exposes mariupolite, pegmatitic mariupolite with sodalite, nepheline syenite pegmatite, sodalite pegmatite. Mariupolite contains some britholite, pyrochlore and zircon.
Dmytriivka open pit. Pit is located in the vicinity of the Oktyabrskyy massif and reveals alkaline apogranitic metasomatic rocks, albitites, albite-microcline rocks, with considerable amount of aegerine, in some places with astrophylite and rich Mo mineralization. Rocks contain some zircon, britholite, bastnesite, fluorite, pyrochlore.
Day 2. Outcrops of taramite foyaite mariupolite, syenite nearby Lazarivka village. Open pit in Khlebodarivka village. Pit exposes enderbite, cut by veins and dykes of kamptonite, carrying megacrysts of biotite, amphibole, augite, anorthoclase, as well as veins (dykes) of calcitic carbonatite with exocontact phenitic aureole.

Photos from Priazovje are presented in the gallery.