| | Book | mosaic of tectonic terranes juxtaposed along ophiolite-decorated megashears (suture zones). Among them...the ANS and is dominated by crystalline basement complex considered by many workers as the mirror image...Nubian Shield The Precambrian igneous–metamorphic complex (basement) of Egypt, covers *100,000 km2, crops...al. 1990; Hassan and Hashad 1990). The basement complex of Egypt is part of the Arabian–Nubian Shield (ANS)...end of the East African Orogen. The ANS has a complex history including a record of the breakup of Rodinia |
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