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Object of this reseach is geochemical characterization of Häme diabase dyke swarm. The analysed dyke (n=42) samples were collected using a hammer. The chemical analysis were performed at Helsinki University for major and some trace elements using XRF analyser and at GeoLab, Washington University for lanthanides and trace elements using ICPMS analyser. The reseach area is situated in the east 35 km north from Tampere and in the west the area of Heinola city. The age of Häme dike swarm is ~1.6 Ga, which is also the age of nearby rapakivi inturions in the area. The Häme dike swarm cuts sharply 1.9 Ga svecofennian bedrock. The Häme swarm has been divided into two sets of dykes based on different strikes, compositional features and in age. One of the sets strikes WNW and the other one NW. Häme dyke swarm resembles continental flood basalts. They are relatively alkaline ironrich continental quartz and olivine tholeiites. Main minerals are olivine, pyroxenes and plagioclase. Their TiO2 (1,4–3,3 p. %), P2O5 (0,4–1,1 p. %), Fe2O3 (12,3–16,6 p. %) and Al2O3 (12,9–18,6 p. %) contents are relatively high and MgO (3,4–5,9 p. %) and CaO (6,2–8,7 p. %) contents are relatively low. The abundances of incompatible trace elements are high and they show LREEenriched REEpatterns, also their Ni and Cr contents are relatively low. In Spider diagram you can see negative Eu, Nb and Ti anomalies in and positive Pb anomaly. Geochemical data doesn’t correlate with two different strike sets and dykes have no correlation with their geographical settings.