Neoproterozoic U-Th-REE-bearing Pegmatites in Wadi Ibib, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: Structural and Geochemical Measures for a Syn-Tectonic Anatectic Model of Formation
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This study was supported by a research cooperation (Grant No. 3TE1107T) between Kyushu University, Japan and the Egyptian Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA). Prof. K. Watanabe and Prof. K. Yonezu (Kyushu University, Japan) are highly thanked for allowing access to the different laboratory facilities and their valuable discussions. The author is grateful to Prof. G. Saleh and all members of the Abu Rushied project, NMA, for their assistance in the fieldwork. Many thanks to Assoc. Prof. Thomas Tindell, Kyushu University, Japan, for the improvement of the English phrasing.

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    The Wadi Ibib area is situated in the northern part of the Neoproterozoic Hamisana Shear Zone (HSZ), which is a high strain zone evolved during the late stages of the Pan-African orogeny, likely as a tectonic escape structure. Amphibolite facies pelitic metasedimentary windows crop out in the axial parts of the HSZ and are noticeably associated with numerous N-trending pegmatite dikes. Whole-rock geochemistry of the pegmatites reveals a peraluminous (S-type) affinity, with low K/Rb ratios and elevated concentrations of U, Th, REE, Rb, Li, Cs, Y, Nb and Ta. Structurally, the pegmatite sets intrude along the shear plane of the HSZ, corresponding to the regional N-trending tectonic fabrics, such as axial planar foliation and dextral-shearing in the metasedimentary host rock. Field relationships, including structural context, coupled with geochemical characteristics of the Wadi Ibib pegmatites, do not support their formation as a complementary part of evolved granitic magmas. Space-localized decompression-induced partial melting of peraluminous garnet-bearing metapelites was alternatively the underlying process for formation of these pegmatites. Such decompression was associated with regional escape tectonics and stress axes permutations during the late deformation stage (D3) in the evolution of the south Eastern Desert terrane, due to end-orogeny system pressure-release.

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Waleed S. IBRAHIM.2021. Neoproterozoic U-Th-REE-bearing Pegmatites in Wadi Ibib, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: Structural and Geochemical Measures for a Syn-Tectonic Anatectic Model of Formation[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),95(6):2045-2062

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  • Received:August 27,2020
  • Revised:December 15,2020
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