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Eastern Desert
REMOTE SENSING-BASED DISCRIMINATION OF HIGHLY FRACTIONATED GRANITE: AN APPLICATION FROM THE HUMR AKARIM AREA ( southeastern desert, Egypt )
Insights on the structural framework of the Egyptian Eastern Desert derived from edge detectors of gravity data
Late Cryogenian and early Ediacaran rare-metal rich granites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: constraints from zircon ages and whole-rock Sr- and Nd- and feldspar Pb-isotopic compositions
The Sukari Gold Deposit, Egypt: Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on the Ore Genesis and Implications for Regional Exploration
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis of Postcollisional Granites from the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Case Study from the Gabal Nugrus Area in the South Eastern Desert of Egypt
Hydrothermal alteration of Ni-rich sulfides in peridotites of Abu Dahr, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Relationships among minerals in the Fe-Ni-Co-O-S system, f O 2 and f S 2
Characteristics and Petrogenesis of Neoproterozoic Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions in the Arabian-Nubian Shield and the Question of Layered versus Alaskan-Type Intrusion
Mineralogical and Geochemical Constraints on the Postcollisional Mafic Magmatism in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: An Example from the El-Bakriya Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt
Petrogenesis of contrasting magmatic suites in the Abu Kharif area, Northern Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications for Pan-African crustal evolution and tungsten mineralization
Diverse marine fish assemblages inhabited the paleotropics during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Ore-forming mechanism and its relationship with deformational and metamorphic episodes at Haimur gold mine, Nubian Shield, Egypt
The Atud gabbro–diorite complex: glimpse of the Cryogenian mixing, assimilation, storage and homogenization zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Abstract Segmented, planar, domino-style extensional fault arrays and their associated hanging wall fault-related folds form complex linked basins along the onshore margin of the northwestern Red Sea, Egypt. The extensional fault systems form half-graben basins with kilometre-scale, asymmetrical, doubly plunging longitudinal synclines and narrow, plunging transverse anticlines and synclines. The axial traces of the hanging wall longitudinal folds are curvilinear, sub-parallel to the half-graben Border faults, and bend or are offset at relay ramps and at fault linkage points. Transverse corner fold systems occur at the fault linkage points and fault jogs. The fold geometries, variations in fault displacement, and fault slip indicators indicate that the fold and fault systems are kinematically related and formed during the Late Oligocene–Miocene rifting of the northern Red Sea. The folds were controlled by vertical and lateral fault propagation and by the mechanical anisotropy of the pre-rift strata. The proposed model for these extensional folds is the initial formation of monoclinal flexures above reactivated blind basement faults. Increased displacement, propagation and segment linkage formed hanging wall longitudinal folds and transverse corner folds. The longitudinal folds grew progressively at the expense of the transverse folds and merged along-strike into long hanging wall synclinal basins.