Petrological and geochemical constraints on the evolution of late Pan-African Bakriya post-orogenic ring complex, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-32

  El Sayed, M M ^a   Mohamed, F H ^b   Furnes, H ^c  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bakriya ring complex; Egypt; Fractional crystallization; Geochemistry; Post orogenic

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PETROGENESIS; RING COMPLEX;

AFRICA; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 2442620202     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2004/0180-0001     Document Type: Article

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