Abstract
In the territory of the Bohemian-Moravian Heights, numerous lamprophyre, lamproid and basic dikes, as well as younger hydrothermal ore veins of different types occur. The dike rocks display rather high BaO-contents. Some lamprophyres from the area with barite-bearing ore veins even contain sparse barite, mostly as amygdules and in pseudomorphs after pyroxene phenocrysts. Barite evidently originated from the components contained in the magma; it does not represent a separate and independent hydrothermal supply, from which the ore veins, including the barite ones, would have crystallized. The dike rocks under consideration giade through transitional members into diabases. This fact, along with evidence concerning chemical composition of the rock, suggests that these dikes represent tholeiitic magmas contaminated at depth, mainly by a support of alkalies and volatile constituents and perhaps also barium. In the area under consideration, some genetic relations between dikes and ore veins may exist, but they are very vague only.
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