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Zircon from
Hafafit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hafafit, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:814067
Long-form Identifier:1:3:814067:8
GUID (UUID V4):e3fffc1f-256b-44f9-a309-9176e60a2c70
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
27.3km (16.9 miles) ā“˜Sukari gold mine, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
27.8km (17.3 miles) ā“˜Abu Khruq alkaline complex, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
30.3km (18.9 miles) ā“˜Emerald mines, Wadi Abu Rasheid, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
33.7km (20.9 miles) ā“˜Khour Abalea, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
34.4km (21.4 miles) ā“˜Emerald mines, Wadi Sikait, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
34.8km (21.6 miles) ā“˜Emerald mines, Wadi Nugrus, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
44.5km (27.6 miles) ā“˜Nuweibi Complex, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
47.9km (29.8 miles) ā“˜Kadabora-Abu Dob alkali-feldspar granite, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
57.6km (35.8 miles) ā“˜Abu Dabbab Massif, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
60.3km (37.4 miles) ā“˜Gabal El-Ineigi, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
References
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of granitoid gneisses in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and south-west Sinai Received: 18 November 1993/...several places in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt and in Sinai and have variously been interpreted...grabbroic to granitic gneisses was investigated in the Hafafit area, which constitutes an I-type calc-alkaline...Granites' of Egypt. 2Ā°7pb/2Ā°6pb single zircon evaporation from three samples of the Hafafit gneisses yielded...from Wadi Bitan, south-west of Ras Banas, has a zircon age of 704 + 8 Ma, and its protolith was apparently
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of granitoid gneisses in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and south-west Sinai Received: 18 November 1993/...several places in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt and in Sinai and have variously been interpreted...grabbroic to granitic gneisses was investigated in the Hafafit area, which constitutes an I-type calc-alkaline...Granites' of Egypt. 2Ā°7pb/2Ā°6pb single zircon evaporation from three samples of the Hafafit gneisses yielded...from Wadi Bitan, south-west of Ras Banas, has a zircon age of 704 + 8 Ma, and its protolith was apparently
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peraluminous leucogranites, South Eastern Desert, Egypt ā€“ petrogenesis and geodynamic significance A. M...of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University...along thrust faults in the South Eastern Desert, Egypt. This work presents field observations, whole rock...volumes of felsic magmas of various compositions. In Egypt, granitoids constitute about 50% of the basement...Hassan and Hashad, 1990; Fig. 1. Simplified map of Egypt with distribution of gneisses and migmatites (modified
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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
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sutures, ophiolitic m61anges and tectonics of eastern Egypt and north-east Sudan Received: 17 September 1993/Accepted:...and ophiolitic m6langes in the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and north-east Sudan, and their relation to arc...Ophiolitic m61anges ā€¢ SuturesLate Proterozoic ā€¢ Eastern Egypt - North-east Sudan Introduction There have been...interpretations of the Late Proterozoic tectonic evolution of Egypt and north-east Sudan - often contradictory - that...sequences, of ophiolites of varying ages in the Red Sea Hills. Many are in tectonic m61anges or thrust
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sutures, ophiolitic m61anges and tectonics of eastern Egypt and north-east Sudan Received: 17 September 1993/Accepted:...and ophiolitic m6langes in the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and north-east Sudan, and their relation to arc...Ophiolitic m61anges ā€¢ SuturesLate Proterozoic ā€¢ Eastern Egypt - North-east Sudan Introduction There have been...interpretations of the Late Proterozoic tectonic evolution of Egypt and north-east Sudan - often contradictory - that...sequences, of ophiolites of varying ages in the Red Sea Hills. Many are in tectonic m61anges or thrust
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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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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
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Abstract: The crystalline basement complex of Egypt in NE Africa is exposed extensively in the Eastern...complexes. Emplacement of the ring complexes in Egypt is mainly controlled by faults and shear zones and...Pan-African orogeny and opening of the Red Sea Rift. Key words: Egypt, Eastern Desert terrain, Western Desert...Hija A SE EGYPT 4 W. Ghadir 746Ā±19Ma 3 RE 25Ā° CHAD CC 2 - >3 Ga 8 5 RED SEA CLOSURE AL Neoproterozoic...the Nubian Shield exposed in Eastern Desert of Egypt Other Late Proterozoic rocks Najd faults 0 Ar
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magmatic core complex in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: emplacement of granitoids in a wrench-tectonic...Abstract Core complexes within the Eastern Desert of Egypt evolved in the course of orogen-parallel extension...intrusion ages are determined using the Pb/Pb single zircon evaporation technique. Results show that all magmatic...Precambrian Research 118 (2002) 59ā€“82 Keywords: Egypt; East African Orogen; Neoproterozoic; Exhumation;...the East African Orogen in the Eastern Desert of Egypt consolidated in the Neoproterozoic by accretion
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Rare-Metal Pegmatites from the Southeastern Desert, Egypt: Geology, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis Gehad M...M. Saleh a a Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt Published online: 06 Aug 2010. To cite this article:...Rare-Metal Pegmatites from the Southeastern Desert, Egypt: Geology, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis, International...Rare-Metal Pegmatites from the Southeastern Desert, Egypt: Geology, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis GEHAD M...Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El-Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Abstract The pegmatite province of the Southeastern
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and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Yasser Abd El-Rahman a a b Sharkawi & Amir Said...Giza, 12613, Egypt b Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt c Department...and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, International Geology Review, 54:16, 1870-1884...and metallogeny of the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Yasser Abd El-Rahmana,b*, Ali Polatc , Yildirim...Giza 12613, Egypt; b Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt; c Department
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ā€“Abu Swayel gneiss belt, south Eastern Desert, Egypt: petrological and geochronological constraints H...Materials Authority, P.O. Box 530, El-Maadi, Cairo, Egypt Institut fuĢˆr Geologie und PalaĢˆntologie, Uni6ersitaĢˆt...rights reserved. Keywords: Gneiss; Abu Swayel; Egypt; Back-arc basin; Geothermobarometer; Age dating...Gneisses cover : 7% of the Precambrian rocks of Egypt. The main occurrences in the Eastern Desert are...eun.eg (H.H. Abd ElNaby). Meatiq, the Migif ā€“Hafafit area and the Abu Swayel gneiss belt. The origin
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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
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Science, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt c Norwegian Polar Institute, Hjalmar Johansens...Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt e Egyptian Institute of Geodynamic, Cairo, Egypt f Department of Lithospheric...coarse-grained diorite, with an intercept U-Pb zircon age of 696 Ā± 6 Ma, shows very weak deformation...with a maximum depth of 58 km. Key Words: U-Pb, zircon, deformation, metamorphism, PT condition, Ajjaj...metamorphic complexes, located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, Sinai and western Saudi Arabia (Fig. 1a). These
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Neoproterozoic Massive-Type Gabbros, South-Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence from Texture and Mineral Chemistry Hatem...Neoproterozoic Massive-Type Gabbros, South-Eastern Desert of Egypt: Evidence from Texture and Mineral Chemistry. Minerals...11884, Egypt Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt Egyptian...(EMRA), 3 Salah Salem St., Abbassia, Cairo 11517, Egypt Department of Mining Engineering, Amirkabir University...are classified into three types, namely black ore, red ore, and disseminated ore. The black ilmenite ore
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mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt Mohamed A. Abd El-Wahed, Hassan Harraz, Mohamed...mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...Mineralization in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt PT Mohamed A. Abd El-Wahed1, Hassan Harraz1 and...Tanta 31527, Egypt 2 Centamin Egypt Ltd, 361 El-Horreya Road, Sedi Gaber, Alexandria, Egypt RI Abstract...neighbouring areas in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt are controled mainly by the conjugate shear zones
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in the Abu Swayel area, southern Eastern Desert, Egypt E Finger 1 and H. Mo Helmy 2 1Institut ftir Mineralogie...Faculty of Science, E1 Minia University, E1 Minia, Egypt With 5 Figures Received January 18, 1997; revised...paragneisses from the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt (Abu Swayel area) were analysed with the electron...applied to a Precambrian paragneiss formation in Egypt (Abu Swayel area, Eastern Desert), for which highly...basement of the Arabian-Nubian shield in eastern Egypt (Eastern Desert) is viewed mostly as an orogenic
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the East African Orogen in the Eastern Desert, Egypt: An old idea supported by new evidence Anders Mattias...71516, Egypt Mining Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt a r t...Uā€“Pb geochronology Neoproterozoic Eastern Desert, Egypt Magmatic pulses a b s t r a c t This paper presents...Hafaļ¬t area in the Central and South Eastern Desert, Egypt. It dates several Neoproterozoic magmatic pulses...criteria such as degree of deformation and colour (ā€œredā€ vs ā€œgreyā€ granites), and chemical characteristics
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...ARABIAN-NUBIAN SHIELD gneisses yields a single zircon Pb-Pb age of 700Ma (Teklay 1997), their general...(Suture). Assuming coast-to-coast closure of the Red Sea, the Hager-Tokar Terrane projects along-strike
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Neoproterozoic Western Allaqiā€“Heiani suture, southeastern Egypt Mohamed G. Abdelsalam a,āˆ— , Mamdouh M. Abdeen b...Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt c Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Received 31 July 2002; accepted...Neoproterozic Allaqiā€“Heiani suture in southeastern Egypt is the western extension of the Allaqiā€“Heianiā€“Onibā€“Sol...Shield; Egypt; Suture 1. Introduction The Neoproterozoic rocks of the Eastern Desert of Egypt form a...rugged mountains, which widens southward into the Red Sea Hills of the Sudan, and continues into Eritrea
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PSAMMITIC GNEISSES, WADI ABU RUSHEID, EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT A.A. ABDEL-MONEM 1'2 and P.M. HURLEY 1 Massachusetts...(U.S.A.) Nuclear Materials Corporation, Cairo (Egypt) Several suites of zircons separated from the psammitic...method. The gneisses represent a formation in Jabal Hafafit Group which is one of the oldest exposed lithostratigraphic...cluster near the concordia at 400 Ma. A single zircon analysis defines, with this cluster, a chord that...2Ā°Tpb/2Ā°'Pb indicating the formation of secondary zircon overgrowths under disequilibrium conditions. Also
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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...structural level of the Meatiq dome, PT E yielded a zircon crystallization age of 630.8Ā±2 Ma (Andresen et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/gr Uā€“Pb zircon geochronology and Hfā€“Nd isotopic systematics of...Beitan granitoid gneisses, South Eastern Desert, Egypt Kamal A. Ali a,āŽ, Alfred Krƶner b,c, Ernst Hegner...Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...magmatism Luā€“Hf and Smā€“Nd isotopes Neoproterozoic Zircon dating a b s t r a c t Migmatitic granitoid gneisses...are widespread in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, but their formation ages are poorly understood
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of uplift and erosion along the flanks of the Red Sea in Oligocene and younger times (Stern 2002). It...Group of Egypt and Jibalah Group of Arabia), and Late Neoproterozoic structural domes (e.g. Hafafit, Meatiq...Meatiq and El-Shalul of Egypt), (6) Late Neoproterozoic brittle-ductile shears, including N-S trending shears...together with minor muscovite and biotite. Opaques, zircon, sphene and apatite are accessories, whereas epidote...micas, abundant opaques (magnetite and ilmenite), zircon and apatite. Other metavolcanics are rhyodacitic
 
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