The Bir Safsaf Precambrian inlier of South West Egypt revisited. A model for ~1.5Ga TDM late Pan-African granite generation by crustal reworking

Lithos

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 897-914

  Bea, F ^a   Montero, P ^a   Anbar, M Abu ^b   Molina, J F ^a   Scarrow, J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Granite petrogenesis; Metasomatism; SHRIMP dating; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRANITE; GRANITOID; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; INLIER; METASOMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PETROGENESIS; PRECAMBRIAN; SHRIMP DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EGYPT;

EID: 79960590991     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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