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Serpentinite from
Wadi Semna, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Type:Serpentinite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Serpentinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wadi Semna, Bir Semna, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1268287
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1268287:0
GUID (UUID V4):b9b127e4-6675-4c25-b4bc-8ea021325405
Nearest other occurrences of Serpentinite
3.8km (2.4 miles) Gabal Um Halham, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
16.1km (10.0 miles) Fawakhir Mine, Qift area, Qena Governorate, Egypt
18.2km (11.3 miles) Kab Amiri, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
33.3km (20.7 miles) Atalla Mine, Qena Governorate, Egypt
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ophiolitic ultramafic rocks in Eastern Desert of Egypt: implications for petrogenesis and metasomatic processes...University, Zagazig, Egypt; bGeological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt ABSTRACT ARTICLE...localities in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, namely; Wadi Muweilha, Wadi Arayis and Gabal Kurbiyay. The present...basement exposures of the Eastern Desert (ED) of Egypt. Few complete successions and many dismembered ophiolitic...in the central and southern sectors of the ED of Egypt (Figure 1), while entirely lacking from the northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Damietta,Damietta, Egypt; bGeology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez University, Suez, Egypt ABSTRACT ARTICLE...in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt, namely Wadi Semna–Fawakhir–Um Gheig belt to the north, and...CONTACT Haytham Sehsah haytham_sehsah@du.edu.eg Egypt Supplemental data for this article can be accessed...suprasubduction zone; Arabian-Nubian shield; Eastern Desert; Egypt Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, The...the lithologic differences, the Eastern Desert of Egypt is divided into three litho-tectonic terranes (Stern
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...which gold quartz ores previously collected from wadi sediments had been processed in the same way as
Book (volume)
ensuing erosion and split into two segments by the Red Sea rift (Coleman et al, 1977). The Arabian portion...the Arabian Shield shield and are reported from Egypt as well (Schurmann, 1966). They are typically mediumgrained...of the Arabian Shield are mainly gray, pink, or red, medium- to coarsegrained, hypersolvus alkali granites...field, they can often be distinguished by their dark red to almost black weathered surface and their tendency... zircon, fluorite, and in several samples brick-red elpidite (Na 2 ZrSi 6 Oi 5Ή2Ο). Plagioclase is usually
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Island-Arc Assemblages, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and Geochemical Constraints Sherif...Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar...Al-Azhar University, Assiut Branch, Assiutt 71524, Egypt Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University...Amiri area in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt comprises ophiolitic rocks, island arc metasediments...dunites). The high L.O.I. value (13.7 wt%) of serpentinite rocks indicates intense hydration and serpentinization
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 (issue)
quarries in the northern Faiyum quarry landscape, Egypt: a geo-archaeological case study Tom Heldal, Elizabeth...77 Granite quarry survey in the Aswan region, Egypt: shedding new light on ancient quarrying Adel Kelany...perspectives and a case study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt Tom Heldal .......................................database of ancient stone quarry landscapes in Egypt Azza Shawarby, Elshaimaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Naguib...professionals from academic and other institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, the UK, Belgium, Italy and Norway
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particularly in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, North America, and China. Many of these...materials excavated in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, China, and North America. The word “lithology”.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6.2 Serpentinite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Gerzean period, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.4 Chert Levallois core from Wadi Barramiya, Egyptian...notched chert biface (shaft straightener?) from Bir Umm Tenedba, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . .
 
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