Editing Syenite (section)

==Occurrence==
[[File:Bulletin 426 Plate XVI B Bowlder Outcrop of Syenite.jpg|thumb|right|Boulders of syenite near [[Concord, North Carolina|Concord]], North Carolina, c. 1910]]
Syenite is not a common rock. Regions where it occurs in significant quantities include the following.
*In the [[Kola Peninsula]] of Russia two giant [[nepheline]] syenite bodies exists making up the [[Lovozero Massif]] and the [[Khibiny Mountains]]. These syenites are part of the [[Kola Alkaline Province]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Downes |first1=Hilary |last2=Balaganskaya |first2=Elena |last3=Beard |first3=Andrew|last4=Liferovich |first4=Ruslan |last5=Demaiffe |first5=Daniel |date=2005 |title=Petrogenetic processes in the ultramafic, alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Kola Alkaline Province: a review  |url=http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/157/1/Downes4_Figs2-12.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110145028/http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/157/1/Downes4_Figs2-12.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-10 |url-status=live |journal=Lithos |volume=85 |issue= 1–4|pages=48–75 |doi= 10.1016/j.lithos.2005.03.020|bibcode=2005Litho..85...48D }}</ref> 
* In North America syenite occurs in [[Arkansas]] and [[Montana]]. Regions in [[New England]] have sizable amounts, and in [[New York (state)|New York]] syenite [[gneiss]]es occur.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} The "great syenite dyke" extends from [[Hanging Rock, South Carolina]], through [[Taxahaw, South Carolina]], to the Brewer and Edgeworth mine in [[Chesterfield, South Carolina]].<ref name=Lieber>{{cite book|last1=Lieber|first1=Oscar Montgomery|title=Report on the Survey of South Carolina|date=1856|publisher=[[South Carolina General Assembly]]|page=32|isbn=9785880484188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xb8SAwAAQBAJ&q=taxahaw%20sc&pg=PA32|access-date=2 December 2014}}</ref> Syenite pebbles, containing [[fluorescent]] [[sodalite]], were moved from Canada to Michigan by glaciers;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Yooperlite-a-new-rock-found-in-the-Upper-Peninsula-492732351.html | title='Yooperlite' a new rock found in the Upper Peninsula | publisher=wilx.com | date=September 7, 2018 | access-date=8 September 2018}}</ref> these [[glacial erratic]] pebbles have been given the trade name "yooperlite".<ref name="Yooperlite">{{cite web | url=https://www.mindat.org/min-53133.html | title=Yooperlite | publisher=Mindat.org | access-date=9 November 2019}}</ref> In other parts of the world, these types of rocks are known as sodalite-syenite and occur in Canada, India, other US states, Greenland, Malawi, and Russia.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}
* In Europe syenite may be found in parts of [[Switzerland]], [[Germany]], [[Norway]], [[Portugal]], [[Sweden]], [[Ben Loyal|Scotland]],<ref>{{cite book| last = Gillen | first = Con | title = Geology and landscapes of Scotland| publisher = Dunedin| edition = 2nd | date = 2013 | page = 188 | isbn = 9781780460093}}</ref> in [[Plovdiv]], Bulgaria and in [[Ditrău]], Romania. 
*In Africa there are syenite formations in [[Aswan|Aswan, Egypt]], and in [[Malawi]] in the [[Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve]]. Syenite rock was used to make the [[Quay with Sphinxes]].
*In Australia syenite occurs as small intrusive bodies in nearly every state. In [[New South Wales]], a large syenite intruded during the breakup of [[Gondwana]] in the [[Cretaceous]].
*[[Paatusoq]] and [[Kangerluluk]] fjords in southeastern [[Greenland]], where a bay within the latter ''(Syenitbugt)'' and a headland ''(Syenitnæs)'' are named after the rock.<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19184706|title=Syenitnaes|work=Mapcarta|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>