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The research history of allanite-(Y) has been considered. The composition and genesis of this mineral is discussed with allowance for new findings in Li-F granites of the Russian Far East. Compositional anomalies in allanite-(Y) reflect the metastable character of its structure. Types of zoning and trends in the chemical substitution of major components are described. Two crystal chemical modes of allanite-(Y) formation and the two-step isomorphism of its components are suggested. The main tendencies in the chemical evolution of allanite-(Ce) and allanite-(Y) in granitic rocks of the Far East are pointed out. Allanite-(Y) is formed in the anomalous geochemical setting that characterizes crystallization of fluid-saturated subalkaline granitic melt and is regarded as an index mineral of rare-metal ongonite magmatism completing the Late Cretaceous Pacific Orogeny.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Alekseev, Yu.B. Marin, I.M. Gembitskaya, 2012, published in Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 2012, No. 5, pp. 1–16.
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Alekseev, V.I., Marin, Y.B. & Gembitskaya, I.M. Allanite-(Y) in areas of ongonite magmatism in the Far East: Isomorphism and petrogenetic implications. Geol. Ore Deposits 55, 503–514 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701513070027
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