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Clinopyroxene Subgroup from Arabian Plate

Ethiopia
 
  • Afar Region
    • Danakil depression
Zelenski, M. E., Fischer, T. P., de Moor, J. M., Marty, B., Zimmermann, L., Ayalew, D., ... & Karandashev, V. K. (2013). Trace elements in the gas emissions from the Erta Ale volcano, Afar, Ethiopia. Chemical Geology, 357, 95-116.
    • Fanti Rasu
Barberi, F., Ferrara, G., Santacroce, R., Treuil, M., & Varet, J. (1975). A transitional basalt-pantellerite sequence of fractional crystallization, the Boina Centre (Afar Rift, Ethiopia). Journal of Petrology, 16(1), 22-56. doi.org/10.1093/petrology/16.1.22
Barberi, F., Chedeville, E., Faure, H., Marinelli, G., Santacroce, R., Tazieff, H., & Varet, J. (1973). Geology of Northern Afar (Ethiopia). (with a geological map, scale 1:500000). Revue de Geographie Physique et de Geologie Dynamique, Paris, 15, 443-489.
Barberi, F., Borsi, S., Ferrara, G., Marinelli, G., Santacroce, R., Tazieff, H., & Varet, J. (1972). Evolution of the Danakil Depression (Afar, Ethiopia) in light of radiometric age determinations. The Journal of Geology, 80(6), 720-729. doi.org/10.1086/627797
Barberi, F., Santacroce, R. & Varet, J. 1975. Silicic peralkaline volcanic rocks of the Afar Depression (Ethiopia). Bulletin Volcanologique, 38, 755-790.
Iraq
 
  • Kirkuk Governorate
    • Daquq District
Al-Bassam, K. S. (1978) The mineralogy and chemistry of the Alta'ameem Graham, A. L., Bevan, A. W. R. & Hutchison, B. (1985) Catalogue of Meteorites (4/e). University of Arizona Press: Tucson.
Oman
 
  • Al Batinah North Governorate
Ishikawa, A. (2020) Hydrothermal Chromitites from the Oman Ophiolite: The Role of Water in Chromitite Genesis. Minerals 2020, 10, 217.
Arai, S.
Miura, M.
Tamura, A.
Akizawa, N.
  • Al Wusta Governorate
    • Huqf Area
Worthing, M. A., & Nasir, S. (2008). Cambro-Ordovician potassic (alkaline) magmatism in Central Oman: Petrological and geochemical constraints on petrogenesis. Lithos, 106(1-2), 25-38.
    • Sayh al Uhaymir
Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
  • Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate
    • Semail Ophiolite
Science Team, O.D.P. (2020) The Formation of Dunite Channels within Harzburgite in the Wadi Tayin Massif, Oman Ophiolite: Insights from Compositional Variability of Cr-Spinel and Olivine in Holes BA1B and BA3A, Oman Drilling Project. Minerals 10, 167.
Cocomazzi, G.
Grieco, G.
Tartarotti, P.
Bussolesi, M.
Zaccarini, F.
Crispini, L.
  • Dhofar Governorate
Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 93, MAPS 43, 571-632 (2008)
Meteoritical Bulletin No. 86
Litasov, K. D., Badyukov, D. D., & Pokhilenko, N. P. (2019, March). Formation parameters of high-pressure minerals in the Dhofar 717 AND 864 chondrite meteorites. In Doklady Earth Sciences (Vol. 485, No. 1, pp. 327-330). Pleiades Publishing.
Russell, Sara S., Zipfel, Jutta, Folco, Luigi, Jones, Rhian, Grady, Monica M., McCoy, Timothy, Grossman, Jeffrey N. (2003) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 87, 2003 July. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 38. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00328.x
Litasov, K. D., Badyukov, D. D., & Pokhilenko, N. P. (2019, March). Formation parameters of high-pressure minerals in the Dhofar 717 AND 864 chondrite meteorites. In Doklady Earth Sciences (Vol. 485, No. 1, pp. 327-330). Pleiades Publishing.
The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 88, 2004 JULY, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, Axxx–Axxx (2004)
  • Muscat Governorate
Nasir, S., Al-Sayigh, A., Alharthy, A., & Al-Lazki, A. (2006). Geochemistry and petrology of Tertiary volcanic rocks and related ultramafic xenoliths from the central and eastern Oman Mountains. Lithos, 90(3-4), 249-270.
Al-Harthy, M. S., Coleman, R. G., Hughes-Clarke, M. W., & Hanna, S. S. (1991). Tertiary basaltic intrusions in the Central Oman Mountains. In Ophiolite Genesis and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere (pp. 675-682). Springer, Dordrecht.
    • Saih Hatat
" El-Shazly,A. K., Worthing, M. A., and Liou J. G. (1997): Interlayered Eclogites, Blueschists and Epidote Amphibolites from NE Oman: a Record of Protolith Compositional Control and Limited Fluid Infiltration. Journal of Petrology, Vol 38, No 11, pp 1461-1487. "
    • Sib
Rajendran, S., Nasir, S., Kusky, T. M., Ghulam, A., Gabr, S., & El-Ghali, M. A. (2013). Detection of hydrothermal mineralized zones associated with listwaenites in Central Oman using ASTER data. Ore geology reviews, 53, 470-488.
Saudi Arabia
 
  • Mecca Region
    • Harrat Kishb Volcanic Field
Wahab, A.A., Abul Maaty, M.A., Stuart, F.M., Awad, H., Kafafy, A. (2014) The geology and geochronology of Al Wahbah maar crater, Harrat Kishb, Saudi Arabia. Quartenary Geochronology, 21, 70-76.
  • Medina Region
Kemp, J. (1981). Geologic map of the Wadi al Ays quadrangle, sheet 25C, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Geologic Map GM-53C (with Explanatory Notes). Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.
Ahmed, A. H., & Habtoor, A. (2015). Heterogeneously depleted Precambrian lithosphere deduced from mantle peridotites and associated chromitite deposits of Al'Ays ophiolite, Northwestern Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia. Ore Geology Reviews, 67, 279-296.
Abuamarah, Bassam A., Fahad Alshehri, Mokhles K. Azer, and Paul D. Asimow. (2023) "Loveringite from the Khamal Layered Mafic Intrusion: The First Occurrence in the Arabian Shield, Northwest Saudi Arabia" Minerals 13, no. 2: 172. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13020172
  • Tabuk Region
Fredriksson, K., Fredriksson, B. J. & Kraut, F. (1986) The Hedjaz meteorite: Meteoritics 21(2): 159-168. (June 1986).
Syria
 
  • As-Suwayda Governorate
Al-Safarjalani, A., Nasir, S., Fockenberg, T., & Massonne, H. J. (2009). Chemical composition of crustal xenoliths from southwestern Syria: characterization of the upper part of the lower crust beneath the Arabian Plate. Geochemistry, 69(4), 359-375.
Nasir, S., & Rollinson, H. (2009). The nature of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Arabian Shield: Mantle xenoliths from southern Syria. Precambrian Research, 172(3-4), 323-333.
Krienitz, M. S., Haase, K. M., Mezger, K., & Shaikh-Mashail, M. A. (2007). Magma genesis and mantle dynamics at the Harrat Ash Shamah volcanic field (southern Syria). Journal of Petrology, 48(8), 1513-1542.
Lustrino, M., & Sharkov, E. (2006). Neogene volcanic activity of western Syria and its relationship with Arabian plate kinematics. Journal of Geodynamics, 42(4-5), 115-139.
Le Maitre, R. W. - Ed. (2002) Igneous Rocks - A Classification and Glossary of Terms (2nd ed.) Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535581
Mahfoud, R. F., & Beck, J. N. (1995). Petrogenesis and geodynamic significance of ultramafic inclusions and basanite from southern Syria. International Geology Review, 37(5), 448-470.
Mouty, M., Delaloye, M., Fontignie, D., Piskin, O., & Wagner, J. J. (1992). The volcanic activity in Syria and Lebanon between Jurassic and Actual. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 72(1), 91-105.
Guba, I., & Mustafa, H. (1988). Structural control of young basaltic fissure eruptions in the plateau basalt area of the Arabian Plate, northeastern Jordan. Journal of volcanology and geothermal research, 35(4), 319-334.
Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences. In Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous rocks. Cambridge University Press.
  • Deir ez-Zor Governorate
    • Deir ez-Zor District
Lease, N. A., & Abdel-Rahman, A. F. M. (2008). The Euphrates volcanic field, northeastern Syria: petrogenesis of Cenozoic basanites and alkali basalts. Geological Magazine, 145(5), 685-701.
Le Maitre, R. W. - Ed. (2002) Igneous Rocks - A Classification and Glossary of Terms (2nd ed.) Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535581
Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences. In Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous rocks. Cambridge University Press.
Turkey
 
  • Gaziantep Province
    • Şehitkamil District
Yıldırım, N., Dönmez, C., Kang, J., Lee, I., Pirajno, F., Yıldırım, E., ... & Chang, S. W. (2016) A magnetite-rich Cyprus-type VMS deposit in Ortaklar: A unique VMS style in the Tethyan metallogenic belt, Gaziantep, Turkey. Ore Geology Reviews, 79, 425-442.
Yemen
 
  • Aden Governorate
Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1970). The peralkaline volcanic suite of Aden and little Aden, South Arabia. Journal of Petrology, 11(3), 433-462.
Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1969). The evolution of the volcanoes of Aden and Little Aden, South Arabia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 124, 283-308.
Dickinson, D. R., Dodson, M. H., Gass, I. G., & Rex, D. C. (1969). Correlation of initial87Sr/86Sr with Rb/Sr in some Late Tertiary volcanic rocks of South Arabia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 6(1), 84-90.
Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1970). The peralkaline volcanic suite of Aden and little Aden, South Arabia. Journal of Petrology, 11(3), 433-462.
Dickinson, D. R., Dodson, M. H., Gass, I. G., & Rex, D. C. (1969). Correlation of initial87Sr/86Sr with Rb/Sr in some Late Tertiary volcanic rocks of South Arabia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 6(1), 84-90.
Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1969). The evolution of the volcanoes of Aden and Little Aden, South Arabia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 124, 283-308.
Manasse, E. (1908). Rocce eritree e di Aden della collezione Issel. Stab. tip. succ. ff. Nistri, 24, 53-204.
  • Lahij Governorate
Dickinson, D. R., Dodson, M. H., Gass, I. G., & Rex, D. C. (1969). Correlation of initial87Sr/86Sr with Rb/Sr in some Late Tertiary volcanic rocks of South Arabia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 6(1), 84-90.
Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1968). Jebel Khariz: an Upper Miocene strato-volcano of comenditic affinity on the South Arabian coast. Bulletin Volcanologique, 32(1), 33-88.
  • Shabwah Governorate
Ali, M., and Arai, S. (2007) Clinopyroxene-rich lherzolite xenoliths from Bir Ali, Yemen — possible product of peridotite/melt reactions. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 102(2), 137-142.
 
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