Metapelitic assemblages in the Umm Zariq schists, central western Kid Belt, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-306

  Abu El Enen, Mahrous M ^a   Okrusch, Martin ^b   Will, Thomas M ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geothermobarometry; Kid Belt; Metapelites; Petrogenetic grid; Sinai; Umm Zariq schists

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGRAPHY; SCHIST;

EGYPT;

EID: 0141460796     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2003/0178-0277     Document Type: Article

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