Structural geology, single zircon ages and fluid inclusion studies of the Meatiq metamorphic core complex: Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Precambrian Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 357-383

  Loizenbauer, J ^a   Wallbrecher, E ^a   Fritz, H ^a   Neumayr, P ^b   Khudeir, A A ^c   Kloetzli, U ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Department of Geology ^*  (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Egypt; Exhumation; Fluid inclusions; Metamorphic core complex; Pan African orogen; Rodinia break up

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DENSITY; DESERT; EGYPT; GEOLOGY; METAMORPHOSIS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; REVIEW; ROCK; SEA; THERMOMETRY;

EGYPT;

EID: 0035420865     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00176-0     Document Type: Article

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