The Sa'al volcano-sedimentary complex (Sinai, Egypt): A latest Mesoproterozoic volcanic arc in the northern Arabian Nubian Shield

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 403-406

  Be'eri Shlevin, Yaron ^a,b   Eyal, Moshe ^c   Eyal, Yehuda ^c   Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Litvinovsky, Boris ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; DETRITAL ZIRCON; INTRUSIVE ROCKS; ISLAND ARC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; VOLCANIC ARC; XENOCRYSTS; ZIRCON U-PB AGE;

GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CALC ALKALINE ROCK; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SEDIMENT; SHIELD VOLCANO; VOLCANIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

EGYPT; SINAI;

EID: 84861400509     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32788.1     Document Type: Article

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