Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World

Setup during HiTech AlkCarb: an online database of alkaline rock and carbonatite occurrences

Shabih (Shabeh, Gabal Shabih)

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Occurrence number: 
049-00-042
Country: 
Egypt
Location: 
Longitude: 34.73, Latitude: 22.67
Carbonatite: 
No

Approximately 4 km in diameter, this intrusion consists of peralkaline granite and quartz syenite intruded into Precambrian granite and gneiss, the contacts being either tectonic or concealed beneath alluvium. Dykes of solvsbergite, bostonite and other microsyenites are particularly abundant in the country rocks.

References: 

EL RAMLY, M.F., BUDANOV, V.I. and HUSSEIN, A.A.A. 1971. The alkaline rocks of south-eastern Egypt. Geological Survey of Egypt, Paper, 53: 1-111.

Location: 
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith