TY - JOUR
T1 - Precambrian basement character of Yemen and correlations with Saudi Arabia and Somalia
AU - Whitehouse, Martin J.
AU - Windley, Brian F.
AU - Stoeser, Douglas B.
AU - Al-Khirbash, Salah
AU - Ba-Bttat, Mahfood A.O.
AU - Haider, Abdullah
N1 - Funding Information:
Constructive reviews by Matthew Thirwall and Joel Baker are gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Joel Baker for permission to use his unpublished isotopic data from western Yemen. Roy Goodwin provided invaluable technical assistance for the isotopic work undertaken in Oxford. M.J.W. acknowledges support of a Harkness Fellowship (Menlo Park) and the Royal Society of London (Oxford).
PY - 2001/1/31
Y1 - 2001/1/31
N2 - The Precambrian basement of Yemen occupies a key location in the Pan-African orogen of Gondwana. This paper reviews geological, isotopic and geochronological data and presents new Pb- and Nd-isotope data which help define distinct gneiss terranes within this basement, constraining correlations of these terranes with neighbouring regions of Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Existing whole-rock Pb- and Nd-isotopic data are also summarised. These data should facilitate a more objective assessment of the contribution of the Yemen Precambrian to Cenozoic magmatism associated with the opening of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
AB - The Precambrian basement of Yemen occupies a key location in the Pan-African orogen of Gondwana. This paper reviews geological, isotopic and geochronological data and presents new Pb- and Nd-isotope data which help define distinct gneiss terranes within this basement, constraining correlations of these terranes with neighbouring regions of Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Existing whole-rock Pb- and Nd-isotopic data are also summarised. These data should facilitate a more objective assessment of the contribution of the Yemen Precambrian to Cenozoic magmatism associated with the opening of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
KW - Pb- and Nd-isotopes
KW - Precambrian
KW - Yemen
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U2 - 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00120-0
DO - 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00120-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035977548
SN - 0301-9268
VL - 105
SP - 357
EP - 369
JO - Precambrian Research
JF - Precambrian Research
IS - 2-4
ER -