Kola Alkaline Province

To this it adds the large nepheline syenite bodies of the Lovozero Massif and the Khibiny Mountains.

[2] The more mafic silicate rocks of the province originated from small degrees of partial melting in a source region in Earth's mantle made up of garnet-bearing peridotite.

Prior to Devonian magmatism the Kola and Karelia region had experienced a long history of low-frequency alkaline and carbonatite volcanism.

[1] The Permian rocks of the Kola Alkaline Province is commonly presumed to represent an igneous hotspot created by a mantle plume.

Some have suggested a link to the Permian Dnieper-Donets Rift while others have considered it as part of a much larger a "North Atlantic Alkaline Province".

Outskirts of the town Apatity where mining of apatite ore from the Kola alkaline Province is the main economic activity. In the background is the Khibiny Mountains , a giant and protruding body of nepheline syenite .