Post-collision, A-type granites of Homrit Waggat Complex, Egypt: Petrological and geochemical constraints on its origin

Precambrian Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 211-236

  Hassanen, Mohamed A ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A TYPE ROCK; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY;

EGYPT, HOMRIT WAGGAT COMPLEX;

EID: 0030834817     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(96)00042-3     Document Type: Article

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