The northern dome of Wadi Hafafit culmination, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Structural setting in tectonic framework of a scissor-like wrench corridor

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-241

  Shalaby, Ahmed ^a  

^a Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Eastern Desert; Gneissic domes; Orogen parallel oblique convergence; Pan African orogeny

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DOME; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD; GNEISS; NAPPE; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT;

EID: 77953621246     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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