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Orthopyroxene Subgroup from Sahara Desert, North Africa

Algeria
 
  • Adrar Province
    • Reggane District
      • Reggane
www.lpi.usra.edu (2020) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=72475
  • Bordj Badji Mokhtar Province
    • Bordj Badji Mokhtar District
      • Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Greshake, Ansgar, Krot, Alexander N., Keil, Klaus (2004) Mineralogy and Chemistry of Fine-Grained Matrices, Rims, and Dark Inclusions in the CR Carbonaceous Chondrites Acfer/el Djouf 001 and the Ungrouped Carbonaceous Chondrites Acfer 094 and Adelaide. Workshop on Chondrites and Protoplanetary Disk.
  • In Guezzam Province
    • In Guezzam District
      • Laouni
AugĂ©, T., Joubert, M., & Bailly, L. (2012). Typology of mafic–ultramafic complexes in Hoggar, Algeria: Implications for PGE, chromite and base-metal sulphide mineralisation. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 63, 32-47.
C. Lemanski, Jr. (re-entry lost Mindat data).
C. Lemanski, Jr. (re-entry lost Mindat data).
  • In Salah Province
    • In Salah District
      • Foggaret Ezzaouia
        • Aguemour
Grady, M.M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.
  • Tamanrasset Province (Tamanghasset Province)
    • Tamanrasset District
      • In Ouzzal
M. Guiraud, J.R. Kienast, A. Rahmani : "Petrological study of high-temperature granulites from In Ouzal, Algeria : some implications on the phase relationships in the FMASTOCr system", Eur. J. Mineral. , 1996, 8, 1375-1390.
Bendaoud, A., Ouzegane, K., & Kienast, J. R. (2003). Textures and phase relationships in ferrous granulites from Tidjenouine (Hoggar, Algeria): fayalite–ferrossilite–quartz secondary assemblage. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 37(3), 241-255.
    • Tazrouk District
      • Tazrouk
AugĂ©, T., Joubert, M., & Bailly, L. (2012). Typology of mafic–ultramafic complexes in Hoggar, Algeria: Implications for PGE, chromite and base-metal sulphide mineralisation. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 63, 32-47.
Egypt
 
  • Matrouh Governorate
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, Nr 8, Supplement, A201–A216 (2006)
  • Qena Governorate
    • Qift area
Abdel‐Karim, A. A. M., & El‐Shafei, S. A. (2018). Mineralogy and chemical aspects of some ophiolitic metaultramafics, central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Evidences from chromites, sulphides and gangues. Geological Journal, 53(2), 580-599.
  • Red Sea Governorate
Abdelnasser, A., Kumral, M. (2017) The nature of gold-bearing fluids in Atud gold deposit, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. International Geology Review, 59:15, 1845-1860.
    • Bir Semna
Azer, M. K., & Stern, R. J. (2007). Neoproterozoic (835–720 Ma) serpentinites in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: fragments of forearc mantle. The Journal of Geology, 115(4), 457-472.
Sharara, N. A., Wilson, G. C., & Rucklidge, J. C. (1999). Platinum-group elements and gold in Cu-Ni-mineralized peridotite at Gabbro Akarem, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Canadian Mineralogist, 37(5), 1081-1098.
Taalab, Sherif A., Ahmed M. Abdel-Rahman, Hamada El-Awny, Hamdy A. Awad, Hesham M. H. Zakaly, Wael Fahmy, and Antoaneta Ene. (2023) "Petrogenesis and Tectonic Evolution of Kab Amiri Ophiolites and Island-Arc Assemblages, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and Geochemical Constraints" Minerals 13, no. 4: 528. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13040528
Kharbish, S. (2020). Mineral chemistry, geochemistry, Raman spectroscopy and geotectonic significance of Neoproterozoic ophiolitic peridotites and pyroxenites from Kab Amiri district, central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Frontiers in Scientific Research and Technology.
Libya
 
  • Jufra District
    • Dar al Gani
Goodrich, C. A. & Gross, J. (2015) A New Type of Ordinary Chondrite (?) Clast in Polymict Ureilite DaG 319: (2015) Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XLVI, LPI Contribution #1832, pdf.1214. (Mar 2015).
Grady, M. M., Pratesi, G. & Moggi-Cecchi, V. (2015) Atlas of Meteorites. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom. 373 pages.
Ikeda, Y., Prinz, M. & Nehru, C. E. (2000) Lithic and mineral clasts in the Dar Al Gani (DAG) 319 polymict ureilite: Antarctic Meteorite Research. Twenty-fourth Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites, NIPR Symposium No. 13., Editor in Chief, Takeo Hirasawa. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo. pp.177-221. (Mar 2000).
Folco, L. et al. (2004) Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early solar system: Evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (10): 2379-2397. (May 2004).
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Mali
 
  • Kidal Region
    • Tessalit Cercle
Graham, A. L., Bevan, A. W. R. & Hutchison, B. (1985) Catalogue of Meteorites (4/e). University of Arizona Press: Tucson.
Mauritania
 
  • Adrar Region
    • Atar
Berger, J., Diot, H., Lo, K., Ohnenstetter, D., FĂ©mĂ©nias, O., Pivin, M., ... & Charlier, B. (2013). Petrogenesis of Archean PGM-bearing chromitites and associated ultramafic–mafic–anorthositic rocks from the Guelb el Azib layered complex (West African craton, Mauritania). Precambrian Research, 224, 612-628.
    • Chinguetti
Mittlefehldt, D. W., McCoy, T. J., Goodrich, C. A. & Kracher, A. (1998). Non-chondritic meteorites from asteroidal bodies. In: Planetary Materials (Papike, J. J. [Ed.]): Chapter 4, 195 pages. Mineralogical Society of America: Washington, DC, USA.
Lapaz, L. & Lapaz, J. (1954)The Adrar (=Chinguetti), Mauritania, French West Africa, Meteorite (CN=0127,202): Meteoritics 1(2):187-196.
  • Tiris Zemmour Region
    • Bir Moghrein
(n.d.) Meteoritical Bulletin Database, The Meteoritical Society.
Morocco
 
  • LaĂąyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region
    • Es Semara Province
      • Smara (Semara)
        • El-Aasli area
  • Souss-Massa Region
    • Tata Province
      • Tata Cercle
Chennaoui, A. H., Jambon A. & Boudouma J. A. (2012). Tissint: The first Martian meteorite fall of the century in Morocco (abstract #5069). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47. PUBLISHED ONLINE.
Niger
 
  • Agadez
    • AĂŻr Mountains
Leger, J. M. (1985). GĂ©ologie et Ă©volution magmatique du complexe plutonique d'Iskou (AĂŻr, Niger). Journal of African Earth Sciences (1983), 3(1-2), 89-96. doi.org/10.1016/0899-5362(85)90026-0
Karche, J. P., & Vachette, M. (1978). Age et migration de l'activite magmatique dans les complexes paleozoiques du Niger
consequences. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 7(6), 941-953. doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.S7-XX.6.941
Moreau, C. 1987. Les complexes anorogéniques å suite anorthositique de l'Aïr (Niger): contribution à l'étude des anorthosites. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 8(3), 115-122.
    • Arlit
Russell, S.S., Zipfel, J., Grossman, J.N. & Grady, M.M. (2002). The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 86, 2002 July. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37 (7,Suppl.): pp. A157-A184. (July 2002).
North Africa
 
  • Sahara Desert
Owocki, K. & MuszyƄcki, A. (2012) Shock veins in the Sahara 02500 ordinary chondrite. Geologos 18 (2): 111-118.
Tunisia
 
  • Tataouine
    • Tataouine (Foum Tatahouine)
Nord, G. L., Jr. & Hewins, R. H. (1983) Thermal and Mechanical History of Tatahouine Diogenite: Meteoritics 18 (4): 364-365. (Dec 1983)
Science. 4/17/1998, Vol. 280 Issue 5362, p412. 3p.
Gooley, R. & Moore, C. B. ( 1976) Native metal in diogenite meteorites: American Mineralogist 61 (5/6, Part I): 373-378. (May-June 1976)
 
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