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Kyanite from
Hafafit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hafafit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:814066
Long-form Identifier:1:3:814066:1
GUID (UUID V4):463ac8a2-a6b8-4940-a17c-c9a87a3aad0a
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
33.7km (20.9 miles) Khour Abalea, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
synthesis of the Proterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield in Egypt Received: 26 January 1994~Accepted: 24 May 1994...critical areas in the Proterozoic basement of eastern Egypt to resolve the structural pattern at a regional...Authority, 3 Salah Salem Road, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt H. E1 Akhal Department of Earth Science,University...Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt G. M. Kamal E1 Din - A. A. Rashwan Geology Department...University, Quena, Egypt zones. Two terrane boundaries can be defined, the Allaqi and South Hafafit Sutures, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association of the neoproterozoic hafafit core complex, south-eastern desert, egypt Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, Moustafa...association of the neoproterozoic hafafit core complex, south-eastern desert, egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2018)...association of the Neoproterozoic Hafafit core complex, South-Eastern Desert, Egypt Ahmed Hassan Ahmed1, 2 and... Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt Abstract Unusual series of hybrid metasomatic mineral...through ultramafic rocks at the Hafafit complex, south Eastern Desert of Egypt. Two groups of mineralogical
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Basement Complex in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt By SAMIR EL-GABY, OSMAN EL-NADY & A L I KHUDE1R...Department of Geology, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt. Geologische Rundschau 73, 3, 1019- 1036, Stuttgart...Meatiq" ~ lqOKpOSOM,,Abu-Ziran". Introduction In Egypt, Precambrian basement crops out in the southwestern...southwestern corner of the Western Desert, along the Red Sea in the Eastern Desert, and in Southern Sinai. The...Arabian-Nubian Shield, exposed on both sides of the Red Sea, which belongs to the'Pan-African belt. The cratonization
Report (chapter)
Precambrian rocks exposed on either side of the Red Sea in westem Arabia and northeastern Africa (Fig....Precambrian rocks exposed on either side of the Red Sea and in Oman, and Precambrian deposition basins...shear zones and other spatial relations prior to Red Sea opening. Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection...east by a zone of sheared and thrusted, locally kyanite-beafing, metasedimentary rocks, referred to here...(Suture). Assuming coast-to-coast closure of the Red Sea, the Hager-Tokar Terrane projects along-strike
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Sikait leucogranite, Egypt: an example of S-type granite in a metapelitic sequence...leucogranite · S-type · Metapelites · Geochemistry · Egypt Introduction Peraluminous leucogranites are commonly...Alexandria University, El Shatby 21526, Alexandria, Egypt Fax: (00203)4836618 mineralogical similarities...features of the garnet leucogranite at Wadi Sikait, Egypt to evaluate the petrogenetic process(es), nature...Ghadir (to the NE of the studied area) and Wadi Hafafit (to the SW of the area) (Elbayoumi and Greiling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Nile valley westwards between southern Egypt and northcrn Kenya, and also occurs in southern...Arabian Shield. Mica-beryl pegmatites and associated kyanite are characteristically developed. The gneiss terranes...WORDS Proterozoic tectonic terranes Nile valley Egypt Mineral deposits Ophiolitc assemblages. Sudan ...western Saudi Arabia, Sinai, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. In the last three...mark terrane boundaries. Faults (dashed lines). Red Sea closure (dash-dot). The terranes are naincd following
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Faculty of Science, Benha University, 13518 Benha, Egypt AN 1Department US Basem A. Zoheir1,2,*, Peter...Gold has been mined in the Eastern Desert T of Egypt, in the northwestern part of the ANS, for more than...Distribution and genetic characteristics, Eastern Desert, Egypt, Neoproterozoic, Accretionary orogen, Arabian-Nubian...alluvial concentrations in the eastern part of Egypt for more than 6,000 years, from before the time...eastern Egypt, through Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, and into Kenya (Fig. 1). Prior to Red Sea rifting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
11790 Cairo, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt Economic...Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt RI a Abstract MA In the Wadi Um Had area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, NE-trending...Arabian-Nubian Shield, Eastern Desert, Um Had, Egypt PT 1. Introduction Orogenic belts are composed...domains. RI Um Had area in the Eastern Desert of Egypt is part of the extreme northeastern African SC...pelitic metasediments and Hammamat AC sediments of Egypt. 5.3.2. Trace elements The ranges and averages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
16, 259–279 The Meatiq dome (Eastern Desert, Egypt) a Precambrian metamorphic core complex: petrological...Institute of Geology, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt A B S TR A C T The Meatiq basement, which is exposed...supracrustal rocks in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, was affected by three metamorphic events. The ophiolite...Grt–Zn-rich Spl–Ms–Kfs–Bt–Sil–Qtz and locally kyanite in metasedimentary rocks. The mineral assemblages...kbar for the retrograde stage. However, relic kyanite indicates pressures above 8 kbar, preceeding the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lower-grade and higher-level rocks of the eastern Sudan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Their distribution suggests that...younger domains such as the eastern deserts of Egypt and Sudan. Most of these granitic rocks can be shown...sillimanite, staurolite, andalusite and probably kyanite can be attributed. Pre-Birrimian rocks are represented...granites in the Pan-African (Kennedy, 1964) domains of Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, while not quite as voluminous...more than half of these terrains. There are in Egypt two main groups of granitic rocks, an older late-synorogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hornblende, anthophyllite, tremolite, chlorite, kyanite, sillimanite, garnet, and other high-temperature...Anthophyllite-vermiculite deposit of Hafafit, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Econ. Geol., v. 49, pp. 317-327. H...Geology, Mem. 27, 44 pp. Prindle, L. M. (1935) Kyanite and vermiculite deposits of Georgia: Georgia Geol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abalea Mineralized Pegmatites, Southeastern Desert, Egypt Reham M. Abd El Rahman 1 , Sherif A. Taalab 2, *...Abalea Mineralized Pegmatites, Southeastern Desert, Egypt. Minerals 2022, 12, 353. https://doi.org/10.3390/...Materials Authority, El Maadi, Cairo P.O. Box 530, Egypt; mounir_r79@yahoo.com (R.M.A.E.R.); mostafa24264@hotmail...Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo P.O. Box 11884, Egypt Department of Physics, Taibah University, Almadinah...from high-temperature metamorphic rocks from the Hafafit complex in the southwest [14]. Khour Abalea is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Unst, Shetland (Curtis and Brown, 1969), in Egypt (Amin and Aria, 1954) and in North Carolina (Kulp...and from occurrence type 2 (A) and rutile, dark red, was observed in only one occurrence in small agglomerated...Anthophyllite-vermiculite deposit of Hafafit, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Econ Geol 49:317-327 Bassett WA (1963)...121-124 Robie RA, Hemingway B S (1984) Entropies of kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite: additional constraints
Book
Section ae 7 1 Introduction 2 3 Algeria Egypt 15 18 4 Gulf States 27 5 tlrag 28 6 7 Jordan...Tunisia 49 51 146 Yemen 53 17 18 19 The Red Sea Israel References 55 56 oF 20 List of Maps ...at the end. A special emphasis has been given to Egypt because of the relatively large number of documents...from the Mediterranean Sea to the Kattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt and generating electricity...worked. (These tomb paintings at Beni Hasan, Upper Egypt, are from the Twelfth Dynasty, Fig. 1.2: Goldsmiths
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with the polygonal plagioclase grains (indicated by red arrow heads), or cut across the plagioclase grain...and also for its two expensive gem varieties ruby (red color due to Cr) and sapphire (blue color due to...association of the Neoproterozoic Hafafit core complex, South-Eastern Desert, Egypt. Ore Geology Reviews, 96,...(2010) Origin and tectonic significance of corundum-kyanite-sapphirine amphibolites from the Variscan French
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, United Arab...Cairo, Egypt f Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt b c a...the Sa’al–Zaghra metamorphic complex in Sinai, Egypt contains the oldest rocks found in the northernmost...Sa’al–Zaghra complex in central Sinai peninsula, Egypt is one of these. This study investigates the metamorphic...Marsa Alam 24º Wajiyah ian-N Shie ubian ld Hafafit a Se ian-N Shie ubian ld 28º 39´ 34º 04´ Arab
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolutionary trends in Saudi Arabia, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, and the southern Negev. Until...30 Ma ago (Gass, 1977a) by the opening of the Red Sea. During the last 20 y, a considerable a m o u n...Peninsula, somewhat less in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, and much less in the Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia,...pattern analogous to that of the rest of Africa. In Egypt, Hume (1934, 1935) established a fourfold subdivision...1971). Some of the best outcrops of these rocks in Egypt are found at Jebel Meatiq (26°07'N, 33°43'E) in
Book
Dietrich Klemm Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining...a joint project with the University of Assiut, Egypt, our attention was drawn to this aborted program...and ascribing them to the chronologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia • Investigating the geology of ore deposits...out to spread far beyond the southern borders of Egypt and well into the Nubian territories of NE Sudan...Robertson Research Ltd. and its subsidiaries, Minex-Egypt and Minex-Sudan, became accessible through archives
Journal (issue)
EUS1HA tr.iwe,•, ,111 ,h. «1sten1 flanks vf the Hafafit !>t11J1i'. I11,,w Jo,,km,: out ucross 1Jw Prt11"aml>rw11...uses. Graphite, aluminosilicates (andalusite, kyanite and !.illimanile) and corundum also occur in metasedimenl<;...Lhe Adriatic Sea and are formed by a coastal plain of low relief flanking a shallow shelf sea. The southern...terrain giving way to the deep waters of the Ionian Sea with little or no continental shelf - a drowned landscape...has a bearing include flooding from rivers or the sea, the erosion of beach sediment and consequent coastal
Book (volume)
Precambrian crust of Saudi Arabia, the eastern Sudan and Egypt consists of abundant granites and granodiorites...basement of Saudi Arabia, the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and Sudan, and northern Ethiopia on the one hand...rocks, often migmatitic, in which sillimanite and kyanite are widely distributed (Sanders, 1954), with granulite-facies...Deserts of Sudan and Egypt and that the predominantly volcanic assemblages of the Red Sea Hills represent...Mitchell, 1976; Frisch and Al-Shanti, 1977) and in Egypt (Garson and Shalaby, 1976), as well as Bou Azzer
Report (issue)
14, 113620 (1980). Analysis, x-ray, UTA, infra-red, from Ehime Pref., Japan. ALLOPHANE. Henmi, (Clays... Analysis from Lake Baikal region, x-ray, infra-red data. ALUMINITE. Farkas and Werner, (Z. Kristallogr...Korist. Svoistva Miner. 12, 54-61 (1978). Infra-red spectran. ALUNITE. Keith et al., Geol. Surv. Prof...89, no. 14, 114103 (1978). DTA, TGA, x-ray, infra-red study of alunite-natroalunite series. ALUNITE. Wan... 141-148 (1979). The effect of Al on the infra-red spectra. AMICITE. Alberti and Vezzalini (Acta Crystallogr
Book
· Yasser Abd El-Rahman Editors The Geology of Egypt Regional Geology Reviews Series Editors Roland...Geology of Egypt 123 • Editors Zakaria Hamimi Department of Geology Benha University Benha, Egypt Jesús...El-Barkooky Department of Geology Cairo University Giza, Egypt Harald Fritz Department of Geology and Environment...El-Rahman Department of Geology Cairo University Giza, Egypt ISSN 2364-6438 ISSN 2364-6446 (electronic) Regional...by: Prof. M.A. Abd El-Wahed, Tanta University, Egypt) This Springer imprint is published by the registered
Report (volume)
ocean basin that opened must have been small (Red Sea size), such that the basin margins collided before...relatively high 87Sr/86Sr ratios. In contrast, when the sea level is high and ocean ridges or/and mantle plumes...a peak in black shale abundance and a maximum in sea level at this time, are also consistent with such...Percentage of the total continental crust above sea level (147 X 106km2). § Based on 550Ma for the 1350-800Ma...with such a superplume event is a peak in eustatic sea level and in a calculated production rate of oceanic
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Republic of Congo (DRC) Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia...deserts, some in swamps, and many obviously under the sea. It is the piecing together of all the available...origin in Africa: Undoubtedly existed in ancient Egypt a highly developed surveying and engineering system...mining operations for gold in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, because the traditional nearer accessible Fig...Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert, Egypt Fig. 2 Geological map of Egypt, published by Russeger (1842) supplies
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F. HUME, the Pioneers of the E astern Desert of Egypt 1\1:ultum non multa Plinius ]1-1,nior CONTENTS...OF SUEZ AND THE NORTHERN RED SEA . . . . . 7 . r. Tectonic map of Egypt by N. A. Syagaev . . . ...Southern Area of the Red Sea Hills towards the Sudan border (Photogeological map of Upper Egypt by Hunting, 1967)...1967) 4. Border area between Sudan and Egypt 5. A. Stratigraphic correction . . . . . . B. Tectonics... . . . . a) Fault Zones crossing the Northern Red Sea. b) The Cairo Graben . . . . . . c) The northern
 
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