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Granulite from
Bir Ali, Shabwah Governorate, Yemen


Locality type:Volcanic Field
Classification
Type:Granulite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granulite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bir Ali, Shabwah Governorate, Yemen
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1275870
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1275870:2
GUID (UUID V4):600c0a60-6aab-40c0-8910-edd8d8a1ff6d
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the western half of the Arabian plate, from Yemen in the south to Syria in the north. The origin of...remains enigmatic. The oldest fields are ~ 30 Ma in Yemen and are associated with the earliest volcanism produced...plume and eruption of flood basalts in Ethiopia and Yemen (Stern and Johnson, 2010). The onset of harrat ⁎...Jizan volcanic fields of Saudi Arabia, and from Bir Ali in Yemen range between 6 and 8 RA, typical of lithospheric... Volcanic activity in western Saudi Arabia and Yemen thus appears to access asthenosphere, plume and
Report (issue)
Volcanic rifted margins also characterize Ethiopia-Yemen, India-Australia, and Africa-Madagascar. The transition...the betterknown volcanic rifted margins, Ethiopia-Yemen, the Atlantic margins, and the Australia-India conjugate...volcanism to synrift domino fault-block terranes (Yemen) and subaerial seaward-dipping re×ector series (Ethiopia)...volcanic rifted margin based on data from Ethiopia-Yemen and the Atlantic margins. Volcanic rifted margin...150 250 200 Ethiopia Yemen Southern Red Sea Oceanic Crust Ethiopia - Yemen Flood Volcanism Northeast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
xenoliths throughout the northern East African Rift and Yemen exhibit characteristics of an initially depleted...in this region is also supported by studies on granulite xenoliths which are interpreted to be formed from...BHVO-2G, BIR-1G, GSD-1G, NKT-1G and TB-1G, and powders of US Geological Survey standards BHVO-1, BIR-1, DTS-1...Ethiopia (Beccaluva et al., 2011) and PT Bir Ali in Yemen (Sgualdo et al., 2015). These studies suggest...the greater Nubian D Shield (including parts of Yemen & Saudi Arabia). When considered with other xenolith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transect along the Red Sea margin from Syria to Yemen. 206Pb/204Pb displays a wide range (from 18.60 to...Arabia to Syria), basalts from southern Arabia (Yemen) display similar ranges for 143Nd/144Nd, 176Hf/177Hf...over the last 30 Ma in Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Yemen. Over the past decade, a number of studies have...been locally identified in pre-rift volcanics from Yemen and Ethiopia (Baker et al., 1996; Stewart and Rogers...Djibouti (Vidal et al., 1991; Deniel et al., 1994), Yemen (Chazot et al., 1992), and Ethiopia (Stewart and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a carbonatitic melt, for example xenoliths from Yemen and Tanzania (Chazot et al., 1994; Rudnick et al...widespread volcanic province that extends from Yemen through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria to Turkey covering...Rollinson, 2009; Krienitz and Haase, 2011), in Yemen (e.g. Sgualdo et al., 2015), in Jordan (Nasir and...Cretaceous analogous to those reported recently by Ali et al. (2020), but on the other hand we suggest a...(1993) examined the geochemistry of lowercrustal granulite xenoliths in basalts from five localities in Western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
heterogeneous radiogenic isotope compositions. Mafic granulite and some pyroxenite xenoliths from Cenozoic basalts...whole rocks from the lower crustal xenoliths and granulite terrains in the craton, indicate episodic mantle-derived...the northern margin of the craton. The young granulite and pyroxenite xenoliths AC C derived from the...compiled from Liu et al., have suggested that mafic granulite dominates SC studies of these xenoliths RI...8 Ga and EP T few 140 - 120 Ma felsic-mafic granulite, while the lowermost (38 - 42 km) crustal section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that many Gondwana CFB provinces (e.g. Ethiopia-Yemen, Deccan, and Karoo) are compositionally zoned and...for other Gondwana provinces, such as Ethiopia-Yemen, Deccan and Karoo, where CFB generation was triggered...other Gondwana CFB provinces, such as Ethiopia-Yemen and Deccan (Natali et al 2016, 2017). Coherently...grade-metamorphic rocks such as migmatitic and granulite terrains (de Abreu Barbosa Araujo et al., 2019;...Markwick, A., Vaselli, O., Downes, H., 2004. Granulite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Deccan Trap
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spreading centres. The AN transitional (Ethiopian and Yemen trap series) to tholeiitic (Red Sea) volcanism is...indicates that a Late Proterozoic lower crust (granulite facies) such as that occurring in Saudi Arabia...such as mafic granulites from Tanzania, Sudan and Yemen. On this basis, we performed bulk mixing and as...amphibole, and melt in natural spinel lherzolites from Yemen: Implications for wet melting of the lithospheric...AfroArabian domain: Insights from Bir Ali mantle xenoliths (Yemen). Tectonophysics 650, 3– 17. AC Shaw
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Markwick, A., Vaselli, O., Downes, H., 2004. Granulite and pyroxenite xenoliths AC from the Deccan...G., Siena, F., 2017. Comparison among Ethiopia-Yemen, Deccan, and Karoo continental flood basalts of...Afro-Arabian domain: Insights D from Bir Ali mantle xenoliths (Yemen). Tectonophysics 650, 3-17. PT E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ahmed Hassan Ahmed, Shehta Abdallah, Kamal Ahmed Ali, Minghua Ren PII: DOI: Reference: S0024-4937(19)30252-X...cite this article as: A.H. Ahmed, S. Abdallah, K.A. Ali, et al., Nature and evolution of the Precambrian...Jordan, Syria, AC Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen (Fig. 1). The volcanic eruptions are mostly initiated...H., Moghazi, A.K.M., Moufti, M.R., Dawood, Y.H., Ali, K.A., 2016. Nature of IP the lithospheric mantle...73–92. US McGuire, A.V., Stern, R.J., 1993. Granulite xenoliths from western Saudi Arabia; the lower
Book (volume)
1159-1171. Whitmarsh, R. B., Weser, O. E., Ross, D. A., Ali, S., Boudreaux, J. E., Coleman, R., Fleisher, R.... 23, p. 1-11S0. Whitmarsh, R. B., Weser, O. E., Ali, S., Boudreaux, J. E., Fleisher, R. L., Jipa, D....v. 23, p. 35-56. Whitmarsh, R. B., Weser, O. E., Ali, S., Boudreaux, J. E., Fleisher, R. L., Jipa, D....Red Sea region of Saudi Arabia (Delfour, 1976), Yemen (Geukens, 1966), and Sudan (Vail, 1978) are fundamentally...The Trap Series, which forms the great plateau of Yemen and Ethiopia on the southern end of the Red Sea
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inert to the fluids that affected the zircon. A granulite and a zoned plagioclase porphyritic metavolcanic...featureless zircon, and date granulite facies metamorphism. Hornblende from the granulite yield 0.59 Ga 40Ar/39Ar...40Ar/39Ar plateaux, dating post granulite facies cooling through ~525 °C, correspond to a cooling rate of...granite, a lower crustal granite in the Athabasca granulite terrane, Saskatchewan, range from K-feldspar megacrystic...plutonic complex, Hamedan, Iran ALI A. SEPAHI Department of Geology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Book
(ETHIOPIA) . GARBES (DJIBOUTI) . BOINA (DJIBOUTI) . DAMA ALI (ETHIOPIA) . ASMARA (ETHIOPIA) . GABILLEMA (ETHIOPIA)...(ETHIOPIA) . ASAVYO (ETHIOPIA) . MAT ALA (ETHIOPIA) . TAT ALI (ETHIOPIA) . BORAWLI (ETHIOPIA) . AFDERA (ETHIOPIA)...(GREECE) . ALFTARHOLL (ICELAND-SW) . ALI BOGO (ETHIOPIA) . ALI DAGI (TURKEY) . ALIANNGEI (KAMCHATKA)...(7, 1968) . HISTORIC 03, . 1 38N 125..4911 E BAR-ALI (ETHIOPIA) . CONE OF DABBAYRA (SHIELD VOLCANO) .... HARRA OF (PYROCLASTIC CONE(S)) 0302- -130233 BIR ALI (ARABIA-S) . CONE OF VULSINI (CALDERA) BISENTINA
 
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