Petrogenesis of late Proterozoic granitoids in the Ras Gharib magmatic province, northern Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and geochemical constraints

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 319-353

  Mohamed, F H ^a   Moghazi, A M ^a   Hassanen, M A ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

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