Magmatic unmixing in spinel from late Precambrian concentrically-zoned mafic-ultramafic intrusions, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Lithos

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 85-98

  Ahmed, Ahmed Hassan ^a   Helmy, Hassan Mohamed ^b   Arai, Shoji ^c   Yoshikawa, Masako ^b  

^a Helwan University   (Egypt)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alaskan type; Egypt; Late magmatic; Mafic ultramafic; Re equilibration; Unmixed spinel

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; PRECAMBRIAN; SPINEL; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

AFRICA; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 49349086181     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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