| INORGANIC ORIGIN IN UPPER MANTLE SEEN LIKELY FOR SOLID HYDROCARBON IN SYRIA PLATEAU BASALT (2859 words) |
 | Lower Pleistocene carbonatite with basanitic, ultrabasic, and alkaline basalt xenoliths, was locally disseminated with and cut by veinlets of a solid hydrocarbon in rifted and plateau basalt covered southern Syria. |
| The lack of hydrous silicates in basanite, ultrabasic xenoliths and plateau basalt, and the oxidation and hydration of ferrous oxide only in xenolithic peripheral mafic minerals (olivine and pyroxenes), indicated a seepage of meteoric water along the rift and fractures. |
| The gray-brown to reddish vesicular carbonatite, in the forms of lavas, dikes, and tuffs, was found in six lower Pleistocene scoriaceous basanitic cinder cones, extruding the alkaline plateau basalt, in Jebel el Arab near the border with Jordan (Fig. |
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