The Meatiq dome (Eastern Desert, Egypt) a precambrian metamorphic core complex: Petrological and geological evidence

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-279

  Neumayr, P ^a   Hoinkes, G ^a   Puhl, J ^a   Mogessie, A ^a   Khudeir, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Panafrican; Prepanafrican basement, polymetamorphism, metamorphic fluid inclusions; Proterozoic

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; PRECAMBRIAN;

EGYPT;

EID: 0031818365     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1998.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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