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⇱ Granite from Guelb el Azib, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania


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Granite from
Guelb el Azib, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania

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Locality type:Complex
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Guelb el Azib, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1510856
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1510856:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
39.8km (24.7 miles) Ioulgend, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
40.6km (25.2 miles) Mennerat Iguilid, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
46.2km (28.7 miles) Menira, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
60.1km (37.3 miles) Adam Tanat, Ahmeyim, Inchiri Region, Mauritania
66.6km (41.4 miles) Kilometre 61, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
80.2km (49.8 miles) Touijinjert, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
94.9km (59.0 miles) Guelb Ould Hassa, Atar, Adrar Region, Mauritania
References
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tic rocks from the Guelb el Azib layered complex (West African craton, Mauritania) Julien Berger a,∗...de Nantes, France c Université de Nouakchott, Mauritania d Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques...The Archean Guelb el Azib layered complex (GAC) in the West African craton of Mauritania is composed...informations are from Potrel et al. (1998). GAC: Guelb el Azib Complex. (Polat et al., 2009, 2010; Windley...this study, we present new data on the Archean Guelb el Azib complex, a new occurrence of layered anorthosite
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co-genetic suite of samples from the Mauritanian Guelb el Azib ultramafic-mafic-anorthosite complex (GAC),...the liquid. In this study, we investigate the Guelb el Azib ultramafic-mafic-anorthosite Archean layered...igneous complex in the West African craton of Mauritania (Figs. 1 and 2). Despite having been metamorphosed...deformation, the original stratigraphy of the Guelb el Azib complex (GAC), comprising ultramafic cumulates...and sample description 2.1 The Guelb el Azib complex The Guelb el Azib (GAC) is an Archaean sheet-like
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(both granite and gabbro) dated at ca 2.73 Ga mark the end of the granulitic event. The granite provides...indicate an origin by crustal reworking of the granite and negative eym2.v) value ( - 0 . 7 ) of the gabbro...reserved. PII S0301-9268 ( 98 )00044-8 108 A. Potrel el aZ , Precamhrian Research 90 (199(~'2 107 117 I...to the east by the undeformed Upper Proterozoic Atar formation. This area, previously mapped by Barrare...sources. The orthogneisses are intruded by the Guelb el Azib granulitic gabbro which provided single zircon
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Structural Parameters of Spinels from Amsaga (Mauritania) Davide Lenaz 1, * ID , Henrik Skogby 2 , Nicola...spinels from the Archean chromitites of Amsaga (Mauritania). The chemical and structural data testified...diffraction; Mössbauer spectroscopy; Archean; Mauritania 1. Introduction Chromium-bearing spinels are...the Archaean Guelb el Azib layered complex (GAC; Amsaga Area, West African craton, Mauritania; Figure 1)...GAC: Guelb el Aziz and the geochronological information are from Potrel (1996) [35]. GAC: Guelb el Aziz
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Amsaga area, West African craton, Mauritania Ashlea N. Wainwright, Fatima El Atrassi, Vinciane Debaille, Nadine...rocks from the Amsaga area, West African craton, Mauritania, Precambrian Research (2019), doi: https://doi...area, West African craton, Mauritania 3 4 ASHLEA N. WAINWRIGHT1*+, FATIMA EL ATRASSI1, VINCIANE DEBAILLE1...Keywords: Paleoarchean, 142Nd, West African Craton, Mauritania, Geodynamic Regime 16 1 17 Abstract 18...from the Amsaga 126 area, West African craton, Mauritania. We will present new whole-rock major and trace
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Mesoarchaean terranes in the Reguibat shield of NW Mauritania R. M. KEY1, S. C. LOUGHLIN1, M. GILLESPIE1, M...recognized in the Archaean Reguibat shield of NW Mauritania, based primarily on their gross lithological...such, the two domains are redefined as the Choum–Rag el Abiod Terrane and Tasiast– Tijirit Terrane. Previous...metamorphic lithologies of the eastern Choum–Rag el Abiod Terrane indicate a succession of crustal growth...Choum–Rag el Abiod Terrane. A new U– Pb zircon age of 2954+111 Ma is presented for a deformed granite confined
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serpentinite. SIMS U–Pb zircon dating on the later granite constrains a minimum formation age of ∼2581 Ma...et al., 2011, 2012; Huang et al., 2014), the Guelb el Azib layered complex in the West African craton (Berger...area is a typical part of a high-grade metamorphic region in the Yinshan Block. The preserved Archean rock...XWLBL include ∼70–75% charnockite and gneissic granite, ∼20% mafic to intermediate intrusive rocks, and...complex occurs as fragments within the host gneissic granite (Figs. 2and 4a) and measures ∼10 by 0.5–1 km in
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(GGGs), charnockites, and granodiorites from the Man region in western Côte d'Ivoire obtained by in-situ analysis...improvement upon previous ages obtained from the Man region. These were based on direct evaporation methodologies...whole rock-garnet Sm–Nd age of a granulitic pink granite sampled in same area (Kouamelan et al., 1997a)...Potrel et al. (1998) reported ages of charnockitic granite ranging between 2.9–2.7 Ga with Nd model ages between...tic rocks from the Guelb el Azib layered complex (West African craton, Mauritania). Precambrian Research
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deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. Originally our goal...the setting and origin of major deposits in the region, together with information on tonnages and grades...Tighza district of Morocco, proposing links to granite-related porphyry and epithermal processes. M. Bouabdellah...Souiah, reports on the geology and mineralogy of the El Hammam REE-rich fluorite deposit in Morocco, suggesting...is followed by I.K. Khalil, A.M. Moghazi, and A.M. El Makky on mineralogical and geochemical constraints
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Iguilid Mafic Intrusion (West African Craton, Mauritania) Julien Berger1*, Khalidou Lo2, Hervé Diot3...represented by the 2726 6 0007 Ga Touijenjert granite (Auvray et al., 1992; Potrel et al., 1998) and...Iguilid body and the 27 Ga Touijenjert I-type granite are marked in (b). Ages of igneous bodies are from... Great Ahmeyim dyke, metaluminous Touijenjert granite), during a tectonic stage that is controlled by...intermediate to felsic plutons ranging from diorite to granite, dated at 27 Ga (Auvray et al., 1992; Potrel et
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complex (*after the Lechana settlement in 357 the region). Mokobjwe hill (Fig. 2) represents the type area...geochronology of granitoids in 538 the Vumba granite-greenstone terrain (NE Botswana); implications... rocks from the Guelb el Azib layered complex (West Africa craton, 549 Mauritania). Precambrian Research...Archean granulite-grade tonalite-trondhjemite-granite 640 suite from Scourie, NW Scotland: Geochemistry...TTG- 654 suite orthogneisses in the Fiskefjord region of southern West Greenland. GeoResJ 7, 22–34.
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processes is mainly built on studies of Archean granite-greenstone terranes, preserved as old cratonic...by 2.7 Ga and 2.5 Ga granite-greenstone belts (Zhai, 2011) (Fig. 1a). The granite-greenstone belts generally...quartzites is the oldest result so far found in this region (Liu et al., 1992, 2008; Wu et al., 2005; Wilde...during Eoarchean in the NCC, at least in the source region of those para-gneisses and fuchsite-bearing quartzites...Sijiaoshan-Xiaozhangzhuang Fault filled with pink potassic granite (~ 2400Ma) younger than flanking rocks (Zhao, 1993)
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in the Fiskenæsset region of southwestern Greenland (Fig. 1). The Fiskenæsset region consists of ~80% granitoid...The Fiskenæsset Complex and volcanic rocks in the region were subsequently intruded by granitoids having...facies metamorphism of the southern Fiskenæsset region (Pidgeon and Kalsbeek, 1978). Igneous rock names...tic rocks from the Guelb el Azib layered complex (West African craton, Mauritania). Precambrian Research... d processes during the Neoarchaean: The Nuuk region, southern West Greenland. Precambrian Eiler, J
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distributions were also explored in samples from the Guelb el Azib Complex (a mafic intrusion metamorphosed to...from (Antonelli et al., 2019c). The shaded purple region demarcates the compositional field that would be...Calcium isotopes in igneous rocks and the origin of granite. 85 Journal Pre-proof Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta...d44/40Ca, d44/42Ca, and d26/24Mg geochemistry of granite weathering at pH=1 and T=25 C: Power-law processes
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