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Zircon from
Jebel Uweinat, Kufra District, Libya


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Age information
Maximum recorded age:42.3 ± 0.8 Ma
Minimum recorded age:42.3 ± 0.8 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
142.3 ± 0.8 MaEocene - U-Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jebel Uweinat, Kufra District, Libya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:713558
Long-form Identifier:1:3:713558:3
GUID (UUID V4):454ada08-5ead-42df-98a4-a2873f690cee
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘJebel Arkenu, Kufra District, Libya
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in other regions of the central-eastern Sahara (Libya, Chad, Sudan, and Egypt) several circular structures...extend from Dakhla and Kharga oases southwards to Uweinat and further into the Sudan; the thickness of the...between Jebel Uweinat and Dakhla oasis apparently exceeds 500 m (Klitzsch et al. 1987). In the Jebel 1629...(Lower Cretaceous). ∗: basalts (Paleocene-Eocene). Uweinat and western Gilf Kebir areas, DevonianCarboniferous...basement rocks, mostly exposed in the oasis of Uweinat and in the southern part of the Western Desert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Germany): evidence from SHRIMP and conventional U–Pb zircon age determinations Received: 1 July 1996/Accepted:...by ion microprobe (SHRIMP) and conventional U—Pb zircon methods. The zircons were found to consist of anhedral...investigated KTB gneiss samples, and an additional two zircon growth episodes in the source area of the sediments...sediments at 712$15 and 525$11 Ma were also recognised. Zircon overgrowths dated at 487$13 Ma are interpreted...determined for zircon overgrowth in the g-unit gneisses. The dates determined for zircon growth phases
Book
dykes 36 (vii) Dungunab sheet 361 37 (i) JEBEL UWEINAT, NORTHERN PROVINCE 37 (j) RUBATAB AREA, NORTHERN...Unfoliated intrusions 19 19 outcrops 47 (b) JEBEL UWEINAT AREA 48 (c) NAWA FORMATION 51 3. MESOZOIC...SHEET 55 (1952 EDN), SABALOKA AND JEBEL QEILI (g) 43 44 (n) JEBEL MARRA REGION (i) Basal schists ...BAHR EL AHMER, DERUDEB SHEET 461, AND KASSALA DISTRICT 31 (iii) Origin of the Nubian Sandstone Formation... Dongola area 64 (vii) Regional description: Jebel Nakharu (viii) Regional description: Kassala Province
Journal (issue)
been made, and 19 are listed; the Nd data from Jebel Marra are, however, indicative of only the most...Sudan. For example, Jebel Uweinat area of Libya, Egypt and the north-west Sudan; Jebel Marra in north and...No. 66 1990 20"E 300 40"E EGYPT ·,.'· 20°N LIBYA '-.. ASafsaf G. Kamil ïżœ --, I NORTH DARFUR... An Archaean basement inlier occurs in the Jebel Uweinat region of the extreme north-western Sudan and...that at least part of the gneisses between the Uweinat Archaean basement of the Nile Craton and the ocean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hematite is the chief iron oxide, there is a little zircon and allanite enclosed in mica, and rare cassiterite...hornblendes. Accessory minerals include magnetite, zircon, allanite, fluorite, epidote and aegerine-augite...much higher than in the biotite-muscovite granite, zircon in particular being more abundant thoughfluoriteis...sparse and include magnetite, hematite, cassiterite, zircon and rare topaz. Minerals.—The following minerals...and to this should be added the granites round Uweinat (Burollet, 1963) and the younger members of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arkenu circular structures (al-Kufrah basin—SE Libya) Corrado CIGOLINI1,4*, Mario DI MARTINO2, Marco...located in the al-Kufrah basin in southeastern Libya, were previously considered as double impact craters...circular structures (ACS) are located in southeastern Libya, on the eastern margin of the al-Kufrah Basin (Bellini...(Bellini et al. 1991) about 90 km southwest of Jebel al-Arkenu (Fig. 1). The NE (Arkenu 1) and the SW...setting of subvolcanic complexes of Jebel al-Arkenu and Jebel al-Uweinat strengthened this hypothesis. The
Book
LATITUDE 6°N (c) (vii) Dungunab sheet 361 (i) JEBEL UWEINAT, NORTHERN PROVINCE GEOLOGICAL GEDAREF-SENNAR...series IL SUDAN COMPANY QUARRY (1) 15 (n) JEBEL MARRA REGION 15 16 17 7 17 17 17 19 19 19 19...SABALOKA AND JEBEL QEILI (g) SOUTHERN JUBAL EL BAHR EL AHMER, DERUDEB SHEET 461, AND KASSALA DISTRICT AREA...CONTINUATION OUTCROPS OF THE ERDI-ENNEDI (b) JEBEL UWEINAT AREA (c) NAWA FORMATION 3. MESOZOIC FORMATIONS...Thickness variations (v) Regional description: Jebel Uweinat— 64 (vi) Regional description: Wadi Halfa
Report (issue)
deposits 40 b) Fodikwan iron ore deposit 41 C - Jebel Barber! 41 D - Lateritic iron deposits 41 E...maps, e.g. Ethiopia (1:2,000,000 scale in 1971), Libya (1:2,000,000 scale in 1970), Central African Republic...occurrences in the Luri River basin and the Kapoeta district and made observations on the geology along the...dykes. 1) The Gneiss Group Most of the area between Jebel Marra and Meidob Hills is underlain by various types...the northwestern part of the country, around Jebel Uweinat, and in the areas southeast of it. The Nile
Journal (issue)
Kordofan, Darfur, and Northern Provin<:(ïżœ 11 Jebel Uweinat inlier 11 Bayuda and Nubian deserts and Red...sequence of events in the Basement Cc)mplex of Jcbcl Uweinat area 12 Sequence of events in the Basement Compl... 1963) , Chad ( 1 : 1 .5 million, 1 964) , and Libya ( 1 : 2 million, 1970) . It was timely, therefore...Portsmouth Polytechnic. Plate 2 The sun1mit of Jebel Marra volcano, Darfur Oanuary, 1 969) with the two...Wadi Magrur flowed north­ eastwards around the Jebel Abyad plateau to join the Nile, possibly by way
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Desert extending west of the River Nile to the Uweinat area. The Egyptian crust can be divided into the...2 6 30° HARAN MOBILE BELT SA S- 1 HOGGAR UWEINAT TIBESTI C Predominantly older crust Neoproterozoic...(Africa) Jebel al Wask (Arabia), 2: Port Sudan-Qala al Nahal-Ingessana-Moroto (Africa), Jebel Thurwah...f- a afs an w As 27° RE ile N Δ ER G. Uweinat 2617 Ma; Nd=-7,14 -4.53 to -5.41 G. KAmil 660 Ma;...Rodinia (Abdelsalam & Stern 1996). Precise single zircon studies of ophiolites from the Egyptian 325 Eastern
Report (chapter)
Basin T6n6r6 Tefidet Tellian Trough Tibesti Uaddan Uweinat Western Desert Wanakum Hills Wadi Natash Zagros...Nilotic (Nuba Mountains, Kordofan, Bayuda Desert and Uweinat inlier) provinces. N o r t h A f r i c a n - A...Laville 1995). Further east, in the Sirt basin of Libya, MidLate Permian basalts have been drilled offshore...Nilotic Province. The Uweinat region, at the border of Sudan, Egypt and Libya, is magmatically active...activity is associated with this rifting. In northern Libya granodiorites (230-180 Ma) are known from the Uaddan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gondwana. from the Archaean nucleus of Jebel Uweinat ĆœSE Libya. to the Dharwar Craton of India ĆœFig. 1...Madagascar Occurrence Description Age ĆœMa. 87 1. Jebel Kamil ĆœSW EgyptrNW Sudan. 3 plutons and concentric...., biotite, hornblende, clinopyroxene, sphene, zircon, opaques, apatite, fluorite. several concentric...plagioclase Ćœoligocl.., biotite, hornblende, orthite, zircon, opaques, apatite, fluorite. batholithic intrusion... partly hypersolvus textures; mineralogy as at Jebel Rahib, but wiborgitic rapakivi textures more widespread
Book
Ivory Coast / Cote dʌIvoire Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya 32 38 42 46 50 52 56 60 64 66 68 72 74 80 84 88...World Realm faunas being present from Morocco to Libya and Arabia. Early Devonian brachiopods are known...35°N 35°N E W TUNISIA S MOROCCO 30°N 30°N LIBYA 25°N MALI 100 0 100 300 km NIGER 20°N 20°N...strata. The Ghadames Basin occupies northwestern Libya and extends into eastern Algeria, where Cambrian...east of Parakou. Limestone is found in the Oueme District in the south, with reserves estimated at 123 million
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the trace element geochemistry, the abundance of zircon, uranium. thorium and complex Ti-Zr silicates,...in the Nubian Province of Sudan, the Uweinat Province of Libya and the Cameroon Province of West Africa...activity, another exception being the Jebel Uweinat Massif (Libya). T h e other cratons are devoid of Cainozoic...predominantly in Sudan but which extend into Egypt and Libya in the north and into Ethiopia and Uganda in the...29. Lado 3C. Wia 11. L o t u k e 12. KISS" 13. Uweinat 14. Arkenu 15. B a b e l n Figure 8. Alkaline
Book
Mauritania in the west, eastwards through Algeria and Libya (Chapter 1). Indeed this stratigraphy can be traced...tectonic phase. Similarly the Murzuk and Kufra basins of southern Libya, if they existed at all, were northerly...Epicratonic rifts, such as the Sirte embayment of Libya (Chapter 3), have largely carbonate reservoirs,...Island Oil Corporation, Mobil, Oasis Oil Company of Libya, Shell, and SOEKOR. I am also grateful to the many...Sciences Garyounis University P.O. Box 543 Benghazi, Libya R.T.J. MOODY 5 Department of Geology Kingston University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located in a rocky desert area in the East Uweinat district of southern Egypt, approximately 2 km due...Schandelmeier et al. 1987, 1988). Based on U-Pb zircon ages of anorthosite samples from the Gebel Kamil...deposition of a sedimentary cover in the Gilf Kebir–Jebel Uweinat region (Orti et al. 2008). DISCUSSION A Model...Description Reference (if not this work) East Uweinat District, Gilf Kebir, Egypt 22 01± 06±± N 26 05±...complex around Gabal Al Uwaynat. In The Geology of Libya, edited by Salem M. J. and Busserawil M. T. London:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cadomian-type—sediments of these ages contain detrital zircon populations in which ca. 1.2 Ga-ca. 1.7 Ga grains...SWA—southwest Arabia; Ti—Tilemsi Island arc; Uw—Jebel Uweinat; WCam—West Cameroon; YAd—Yaounde and Adamawe-Yade...supported by the presence of up to 0.93 Ga detrital zircon grains in metasediments in southern Israel, which...rocks probably represent distinct terranes. The Uweinat outcrop (Fig. 2) exposes Archean rocks reworked...clastics (Arkenu Formation) contains a unique detrital zircon population (Le Heron et al., 2009) that is dominated
Book
Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, the Emirates, Libya, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Japan) have...Magnetotelluric Data Acquired Near Tahalgha Volcanic District (Hoggar, Southern Algeria)”, by Bouzid et al....Magnetotelluric Data Acquired Near Tahalgha Volcanic District (Hoggar, Southern Algeria) . . . . . . . . 167...Eastern Desert juvenile rocks. Isotopic data (U–Pb zircon and Sm–Nd whole rock) further indicate that most...discriminate the different rock types in the Barramiya district (Salem et al. 2014) at the central Eastern Desert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
best outcrops of these rocks in Egypt are found at Jebel Meatiq (26°07'N, 33°43'E) in the Eastern Desert...toward the Precambrian outcrops at Jebel Uweinat at the Egypt--Sudan--Libya junction. Here ages up to 2670...Cooper et al. (1979) by the U--Pb m e t h o d on zircon, shows that these predominantly intermediate rocks...al., 1980), which reach at their type locality, Jebel Dokhan, a thickness of 1200 m. Stern (1979a) obtained... , ) Fig. 5. The Hamad Abadu unconformity at Jebel Katharina (southern Sinai). 40 (Fig. 5) in Sinai
Report (volume)
occurrences in the Ghadames Basin, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya 109 LOGAN, P. & DUDDY, I. An investigation of...Cretaceous Sarir Sandstone in the eastern Sirt Basin, Libya 317 SPRING, D. & HANSEN, O. P. The influence of...sequence: the Harash Formation, Eastern Sirt Basin, Libya 335 LOUCKS, R. G., MOODY, R. T. J., BELLIS, J...importance of the region to the petroleum Tunisia, Libya and the western part of Egypt, industry is, of course...5 Iran 6 Venezuela 7 Mexico 8 Russia* USA* 9 10 Libya 11 China 12 Nigeria 13 Algeria* Egypt (inc. Gulf
Book
Archean–Mesoproterozoic “Metacratonic Gneisses of Uweinat-Kamil inlier”. With the exception of the Neoproterozoic... . . . . . . . 2.4.1 Metacratonic Gniesses of Uweinat-Kamil Inlier . . 2.4.2 Infrastructural Gneissic...upper Egypt to reach the border of the present day Libya to see the imaginary Zarzora Oasis. The northern...geology of the Sinai Peninsula and Cairo-Suez district (Barron 1907) and together with W. Hume compiled...of some ore deposits like chromite in Barramiya district, Tin in Um Bissila and cassiterite in Igla (all
Book
Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Guinea Libya Malagasy Republic Mali Republic Morocco iti Contents...ferromagnesian or mafic constituents. Other minerals, e.g. zircon, sphene, apatite, garnet, normally occur in small...FeS, Sphene(Titanite) CaTiSiO, Ilmenite FeTiO, Zircon Zr,SiO, Eudialyte (Eucolite) (Na,CaFe),Zr(OH,CI)(SiO...ferromagnesian minerals or as alteration products. Corundum, zircon and other refractory non-magnetic minerals are...with accessory ilmenite, magnetite, pyrite and zircon. Corundum occurs in the coarser pegmatitic types
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(ENd = + 1.9). This age is consistent with U-Pb zircon ages, which suggests the Nd isotopic system has...Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Based on UPb zircon data (DAVIS et al.. 1986; GOLDICH and FISCHER,...of the Rainy Lake area comes from V-Pb dating of zircon and sphene from individual rock units. TILTON and...rocks in the area were near 2700 Ma old, but the zircon populations displayed enough discordance so that...precisely. Recent l!nalyses on near concordant zircon cores (DAVIS et aI., 1986; GOLDICH and FISCHER
Journal (volume)
by biotite (Allegre and Caby 1972), U/Th/Pb on zircon (Lancelot er al. 1976), and Nd/S m on garnet (Ben...1976. Uran ium and lead isotopic datino wiLh grain zircon analysis: a study of complex geological history...Korpershc;ek (unpublished) The geology or Cassinga district, Angola, and its potential compared to that of...province covering Burundi, Rwanda, the west lake district of Tanzania, and southwest Uganda. The latter...and muscovite (biotite) with accessory apatite, zircon, and tourmaline. Their roof is often invaded by
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African Craton: Northeast Africa and Arabia 3.11.1 Uweinat Inlier 3.1 1.2 Arabian-Nubian Shield 3.12 Indian...Thus the impact of geochronology, notably U-Pb zircon dating and related isotopic systematics has added...(north-central Africa) Northeastern Africa: (1) Tibesti, Uweinat and Tchad inliers, (2) Arabain-Nubian Shield Mobile...diagram (Wetherill 1956) ultimately resulted in U-Pb zircon dating becoming the most useful of the isotopic...measure isotopic heterogeneities within individual zircon crystals on the scale of a few tens of micrometres
 
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