Ophicarbonates: Calichified serpentinites from Gebel Mohagara, Wadi Ghadir area, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 315-324

  Surour, Adel A ^a   Arafa, Ebtisam H ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPHICALCITE; SERPENTINITES;

EGYPT, WADI GHADIR;

EID: 0031402680     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0899-5362(97)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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