Structural evolution in the palaeoproterozoic basement (banded iron formation and related rocks) of SW Egypt [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Mostafa Fahmy Mostafa Elkady

INAUGURAL – DISSERTATION Zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematischen Gesamtfakultät der Ruprecht – Karls - Universität Heidelberg Deutschland STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION IN THE PALAEOPROTEROZOIC BASEMENT (BANDED IRON FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS) OF SW EGYPT Vorgelegt von Mostafa Fahmy Mostafa Elkady Aus Ägypten 2003 Gutachter : Prof. Dr. Reinhard O. Greiling Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dachroth To the Memory of my Mother My Father And My Family IIAbstract Structural evolution in the Palaeoproterozoic Banded Iron Formation of SW Egypt M.F.Elkady Geol.Pal.Inst.INF 234, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg. On leave from: Egyptian Geological Survey, 3 Slah Salem st., Abbassia Cairo Egypt. The exposed basement of the Western Desert of Egypt is part of the pre-Pan-African East Sahara Craton. The Gabel Uweinat-Bir Safsaf Aswan Uplift is situated at the eastern fringe of this craton, and its high-grade metamorphic and granitoid rock associations are markedly distinct from the metavolcanic-metasedimentary-ophiolitic sequences of the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Nubian Shield). Crystalline basement 2rocks cover an area of some 40,000 km in SW Egypt. The fieldwork and mapping of the basement rocks in the present area were carried out during the winters 1998, 1999 and at last in 2001 for altogether about 10 months of fieldwork.