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Jebel Sileitat stands as an inselberg above a surrounding plain of Nubian Sandstone which separates it from Jebel es Sufra to the north. The rock is a granite with pegmatitic streaks which passes upwards on some ridges into rhyolite; felsite dykes occur. All rock types contain riebeckite, and some varieties of granite a pale green pyroxene. South of Jebel es Sufra exposures of pyroclastic rocks consist of large boulders of riebeckite-bearing granite and rhyolite in a coarse rhyolitic tuff.
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