Petrological and mineralogical characteristics of younger granites and pegmatites in the Wadi Haleifiya area, southeastern Sinai, Egypt

作     者：El Gharbawy R.I. El Feky M.G. El Galy M.M. El Maadawy W.M. 

作者机构：Faculty of Science Ain Shams Univeristy Cairo Egypt Nuclear Materials Authority P.O. Box 030 Maadi Egypt 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal Of Geochemistry》 (中国地球化学学报)

年 卷 期：2011年第30卷第3期

页      面：304-316页

核心收录：

学科分类：081803[工学-地质工程] 0709[理学-地质学] 070901[理学-矿物学、岩石学、矿床学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

主　　题：二长花岗岩 矿物学特征 西奈半岛 伟晶岩 东南部 岩石学 埃及 碱长花岗岩 

摘      要：This study is concerned with the radioactivity and mineralogy of the younger granites and pegmatites in the Wadi Haleifiya area, southeastern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The area is occupied by metasediments, migmatites, older and younger granites. Most of these rocks, especially granites, are dissected by mafic and felsic dykes as well as pegmatites. The younger granites are represented by three main varieties: monzogranites, syenogranites and alkali feldspar granites. The monzogranite consists essentially of quartz, plagioclase, potash feldspar and biotite with minor musco-vite. Iron oxide, titanite, zircon and allanite are the main accessory minerals. Syenogranite is massive, medium- to coarse-grained and commonly exhibits equigranular and hypidiomorphic textures. It is made up essentially of potash feldspar, quartz, plagioclase and biotite. Iron oxides, allanite, epidote, titanite, and zircon are accessory minerals. The alkali feldspar granite consists mainly of perthite, quartz, alkali amphibole (arfvedsonite and riebekite), biotite, sub-ordinate plagioclase and aegirine. Iron oxide, zircon and apatite are accessory minerals, whereas chlorite and sas-surite are secondary minerals. The altered monzogranite and pegmatite recorded high radioelement contents. The eU reaches up to 120 (av.=82×10-6) in the altered monzogranite and up to 55 (av.=27×10-6) in the pegmatites. The high radioactivity in the altered monzogranite is due to the presence of thorite, uranothorite and metamict zircon. In the pegmatites, it is re-lated to the presence of uranophane, uranothorite, thorite, zircon, samarskite, monazite, xenotime, magnetite, ilmen-ite, hematite and rutile.