Geology and Petrography of the Intrusives in the Deccan Trap of Central and South-Eastern Saurashtra, India

Forty-five major dykes intruding the Deccan Trap were studied in the central and south-eastern parts of Saurashtra. There are some distinct structural differences seen between the area north of Amreli and that south of Amreli. The lava flows north of Amreli are practically horizontal, while south of Amreli they seem to be forming a major southerly-plunging antiform. In the area north of Amreli, dolerite dykes are invariably enriched in fresh olivine and are associated with one ankaramite dyke, a hybrid monzodolerite and a stock-like body of essexite (foid monzogabbro). In the area south of Armeli, dolerites are generally olivine free but in a few samples altered olivine is present. These dolerites are associated with rhyolitic dykes, which invariably contain microphenocrysts of quartz and are thus described as quartz porphyries.