Provenance, tectonic setting and geochemistry of greywackes and siltstones of the Late Precambrian Hammamat Group, Egypt

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 227-250

  Holail, Hanafy M ^a   Moghazi, Abdel Kader M ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Greywacke; Hammamat group; Neoproterozoic; Provenance; Siltstone

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GREYWACKE; PROTEROZOIC; SILTSTONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EGYPT;

EID: 0031845615     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00104-8     Document Type: Article

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