Late Neoproterozoic volcanism in the southern Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological, structural and geochemical constraints on the tectonic-magmatic evolution of the Allaqi Dokhan volcanic suite

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-286

  El Sayed, Mohamed M ^a   Obeid, M A ^b   Furnes, H ^c   Moghazi, A M ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allaqi; Dokhan volcanics; Egypt; Fractional crystallization; Petrogenesis; Tectonic setting

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; EASTERN DESERT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 8644241640     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2004/0180-0261     Document Type: Article

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