Late Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Midyan region, northwestern Saudi Arabia

Neoproterozoic structural evolution of SE Sinai, Egypt: I. Re-investigation of the structures and deformation kinematics of the Um Zariq and Malhaq Formations, northern Wadi Kid area

“…This is likely ascribed to the fact that these terrains are isolated from each other by large volumes of younger intrusions. These complexes have played an important role in elucidating details of the northern limits of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (Bentor, 1985;Stern and Manton, 1987;Kröner et al, 1990;Eyal et al, 1991), and permit correlation of tectonic elements between the North Eastern Desert of Egypt and the Midian Terrain of Saudi Arabia (Stern et al, 1984;Shimron, 1984b;Clark, 1985). This underlines the value of continued efforts to understand these complexes and the relations between them.…”

Age of Feiran basement rocks, Sinai: implications for late Precambrian crustal evolution in the northern Arabian–Nubian Shield

“…Eleven deformational and five igneous events have been observed (Elbayoumi & Greiling 1984). A syntectonic tonalite intruded into the gneisses has a U-Pb zircon age of 682 Ma and an initial s7Sr/86Sr of 0.7024 (Stern & Hedge 1985 Egypt, El-Ramly 1972;Sinai, Eyal et al 1980;Jordan, Bender, 1974; NW Arabia, Johnson, 1983;Clark, 1985 …”

Late Neoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary successions of Wadi Rufaiyil, southern Sinai, Egypt: A case of transition from late- to post-collisional magmatism

“…Similar volcano-sedimentary successions were also described from the northernmost ANS including the Hiayala volcaniclastic Formation and the Saramuj conglomerates (595-600 Ma; Jarrar et al, 1993) of SW Jordan, the Elat conglomerate and associated volcanics in southern Israel (ca. 600 Ma; Garfunkel 1999) and the post 600 Ma Minawa Formation in Midyan region northern Saudi Arabia (Clark, 1985). Other successions further south including the Amaki series of NE Sudan (Almond et al, 1984) and the Jibalah Group ($630 Ma) of Saudi Arabia (Hadley and Schmidt, 1980;Johnson and Woldehaimanot, 2003) may also be correlative of the Dokhan-Hammamat successions.…”