The provenance and tectonic setting of the Neoproterozoic Um Hassa Greywacke Member, Wadi Hammamat area, Egypt: Evidence from petrography and geochemistry

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-196

  El Rahman Yasser Abd, Y A ^a,b   Polat, Ali ^a   Fryer, Brian J ^a,c   Dilek, Yildrim ^d   El Sharkawy, Mohamed ^b   Sakran, Shawki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egypt; Hammamat group; Molasse sediments; Retroarc foreland basin

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; GRAYWACKE; MOLASSE; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT]; WADI HAMMAMAT;

EID: 78549241234     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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