Orthogneisses from the Taba Metamorphic Belt, SE Sinai, Egypt: Witnesses for granitoid magmatism at an active continental margin

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-81

  Abu El Enen, Mahrous M ^a   Zalata, Abdelkader A ^a   El Metwally, Ahmed A ^a   Okrusch, Martin ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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