Exhumation during oblique transpression: The Feiran-Solaf region, Egypt

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 439-459

  Abu Alam, T S ^a   Stuwe K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Deformation phases; Exhumation process; P T D path; Pan African Orogeny; Thermodynamic modelling

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOME; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; P-T-T PATH; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPRESSION;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SHIELD; ASIA; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; NUBIAN SHIELD; SINAI;

EID: 67649882774     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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