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73 Professional paper Received: February 8, 2013 Accepted: February 18, 2013 Mineralogical and chemical characterization of major basement rocks in Ekiti State, SW-Nigeria Mineraloške in kemične značilnosti glavnih kamnin podlage v državi Ekiti v JZ Nigeriji Abel O. Talabi1, * 1Ekiti State University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geology, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria *Corresponding author. E-mail: soar_abel@ Abstract Izvleček Mineralogy and chemical composition of rocks con- Mineraloška in kemična sestava kamnin je zanesljiva stitute a reliable means of rocks’ classification. Mig- osnova za njihovo klasifikacijo. Razvit je migmatit matite which occur in association with quartz schist/ v združbi s kremenovim metamorfnim skrilavcem/ quartzite, Pan African Granites and charnockitic bodies kvarcitom. V študiji so preiskovali panafriške granite around Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria, were studied in charnokitska telesa z namenom pojasniti značilno- with a view to elucidate their mineralogical, composi- sti njihove mineraloške in kemične sestave ter njihov tional characteristics and their evolution. razvoj. Z mineraloško optično preiskavo so ugotovili Mineralogical determinations from optical studies v kremenovem metamorfnem skrilavcu/kvarcitu revealed a high proportion of granular quartz and ac- velik volumenski delež zrnatega kr