gsminmag Mineralogical Magazine Mineralogical Magazine 0026-461X Mineralogical Society 10.1180/minmag.1978.042.322.21 Synopses Allanite from the Kondapalli Charnockites, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India Rao A. T. Department of Geology, Andhra University, Waltair 530003, India 6 1978 42 322 280 280 Copyright © 1978, The Mineralogical Society 1978 Synopses

The coarse-grained charnockites of Donabanda hill, Kondapalli, contain metamict allanite. An analysis is given, also optical data for the heated allanite, and the conditions of formation of the rocks are shortly discussed.