Abstract
The largest mafic pluton in Europe (area = 630 km2, thickness = 5 to 7 km) is the early Proterozoic (2445 ± 4 Ma; Pb-Pb) Burakovsky Layered Intrusion (BLI). It is located in the southern part of Russian Karelia, in the SE part of the Baltic Shield, within an Archean granite-greenstone terrain. The BLI is overlain by Quaternary deposits, and our present understanding of its character, composition, and internal structure is based on geophysical surveys and the nature of the rocks at depth, as sampled by diamond drill core. In order to better understand the petrogenesis of the BLI, we present geologic, petrographic, mineral-chemical, and whole-rock chemical analyses from throughout the stratigraphic sequence. The BLI is a lopolith-like body and is divided into two major units: the Layered Series (LS), which exhibits layering that is discordant to the contact, and the Border Group (BG), with layering that conforms to the contact surface. The LS constitutes most of the BLI and consists of, from bottom to top: ...
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