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Petrogenesis of chemical compositional trends within a mafic dyke at Wadi Lethi, Southern Sinai, Egypt.

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Organic chemistry

Abstract

Systematic mineralogical chemical compositional variations across a mafic dyke at the Wadi Lethi area, in southern Sinai, are observed. This dyke extrudes the Neoproterozoic Younger Granite of southern Sinai. New petrographic, geochemical data, and mineral chemistry data are applied to predict the evolution scheme of this dyke. The collected samples vary in composition from (outward zone) basalt to (inward zone) andesite. The studied samples exhibit a wide uniform variation in main oxides and trace elements content and display a significant inward chemical variation. The studied samples are mainly identified into basalt, trachy-andesite, basaltic andesite, and andesite. The geochemical characters reveal that the investigated dyke originated from calc-alkaline magma under orogenic tectonic setting. Mineral chemistry data reveals that the studied dyke formed at water pressure ranges from 1-3 kbr and low oxygen fugacity conditions. The fractional crystallization process is assumed to have prevailed during the extrusion of the investigated dyke.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.88960.4271

Keywords

Mafic dyke, mineral chemistry, petrogenesis, zonation

Authors

First Name

Nahla

Last Name

Abd El Ghaffar

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Affiliation

Geological Sciences dep., National Research Centre

Email

nahla169@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-6437-447X

Volume

65

Article Issue

2

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28751

Issue Date

2022-02-01

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2021-08-02

Publish Date

2022-02-01

Page Start

459

Page End

469

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_191313.html

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Petrogenesis of chemical compositional trends within a mafic dyke at Wadi Lethi, Southern Sinai, Egypt.

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22 Jan 2023