Depositional styles of Early Ediacaran terrestrial volcanosedimentary succession in Gebel El Urf area, North Eastern Desert, Egypt

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 328-344

  Eliwa, Hassan ^a   Breitkreuz, Christoph ^b   Khalaf, Ibrahim ^a   Gameel, Khaled El ^a,b  

^a Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dokhan Volcanics; Ediacaran; Egypt; Facies analysis; Gebel El Urf; Hammamat Sediments

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EDIACARAN; EROSION; FACIES ANALYSIS; GRANITOID; IGNIMBRITE; LITHOFACIES; OVERPRINTING; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; UNCONFORMITY; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM;

AL GHURDAQAH; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; GEBEL EL URF; HURGHADA; RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT];

EID: 77950862819     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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