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Arabian Nubian Shield Overview
Saudi Arabia
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The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2019.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Abdelsalam, M.G. and Stern, R.J.,  1993 - Tectonic evolution of the Nakasib suture, Red Sea Hills, Sudan: evidence for a late Precambrian Wilson Cycle: in    Journal of the Geological Society, London,   v.150, pp. 393-404.
Abdelsalam, M.G., Liegeois, J.-P. and Stern, R.J.,  2002 - The Saharan Metacraton: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.34, pp. 119-136.
Agar, R.A.,  1992 - The tectono-metallogenic evolution of the Arabian Shield: in    Precambrian Research   v.58, pp. 169-194.
Barrie, C.T., Abu Fatima, M. and Hamer, R.D.,  2016 - Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide-Oxide Gold Deposits of the Nubian Shield in Northeast Africa: in Bouabdellah, M. and Slack, J.F. (eds.), 2016 Mineral Deposits of North Africa, Mineral Resource Reviews, Springer International Publishing Switzerland   DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31733-5_17, pp. 417-435.
Botros, N.S.,  2015 - Gold in Egypt: Does the future get worse or better?: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.67, pp. 189-207.
Botros, N.S.,  2015 - The role of the granite emplacement and structural setting on the genesis of gold mineralization in Egypt: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.70, pp. 173-187.
Bowden, S., Gani, N.D., Alemu,T., O Sullivan, P., Abebe, B. and Tadesse, K.,  2020 - Evolution of the Western Ethiopian Shield revealed through U-Pb geochronology, petrogenesis, and geochemistry of syn- and post-tectonic intrusive rocks: in    Precambrian Research   v.338, 14p. doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105588.
Fritz, H., Abdelsalam, M., Ali, K.A., Bingen, B., Collins, A.S., Fowler, A.R., Ghebreab W., Hauzenberger, C.A., Johnson, P.R., Kusky, T.M., Macey, P., Muhongo, S., Stern, R.J. and Viola, G.,  2013 - Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.86, pp. 65-106.
Greenwood, W.R., Stoeser, D.B., Fleck, R.J. and Stacey, J.S.,  1983 - Late Proterozoic island-arc complexes and tectonic belts in the southern part of the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: in    Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,   Open File Report 83-296, 47p.
Harbi, H.A., Eldougdoug, A.A. and Al Jahdli, N.S.,  2006 - Geology and Geochemistry of Jabal Ghadarah Ophiolitic Melange, Zalim Quadrangle, Central Saudi Arabia: in    Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Earth Sciences,    v.17, pp. 117-153.
Johnson, P.R.,  2006 - Explanatory notes to the map of Proterozoic Geology of western Saudi Arabia: in    Saudi Geological Survey,   Technical Report SGS-TR-2006-04 76p.
Johnson, P.R.,  2014 - An Expanding Arabian-Nubian Shield Geochronologic and Isotopic Dataset: Defining Limits and Confirming the Tectonic Setting of a Neoproterozoic Accretionary Orogen: in    The Open Geology Journal,   v.8, pp. 3-33.
Johnson, P.R., Andresen, A., Collins, A.S., Fowler, A.R., Fritz, H., Ghebreab, W., Kusky, T. and Stern, R.J.,  2011 - Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen: in    J. of African Earth Sciences,   v.61, pp. 167-232.
Johnson, P.R., Halverson, G.P., Kusky, T.M., Stern, R.J. and Pease, V.,  2013 - Volcanosedimentary Basins in the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Markers of Repeated Exhumation and Denudation in a Neoproterozoic Accretionary Orogen: in    Geosciences (MDPI),   v.3, pp. 389-445.
Johnson, P.R., Zoheir, B.A., Ghebreab, W., Stern, R.J., Barrie, C.T. and Hamer, R.D.,  2017 - Gold-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfides and orogenic-gold deposits in the Nubian Shield: in    S. Afr. J. Geol.   v.120, pp. 63-76.
Klemm, D., Klemm, R. and Murr, A.,  2001 - Gold of the Pharaohs - 6000 years of gold mining in Egypt and Nubia: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.33, pp. 643-659.
Reischmann, T. and Kroner, A.,  1994 - Late Proterozoic island arc volcanics from Gebeit, Red Sea Hills, north-east Sudan: in    Geologische Rundschau,   v.83, pp. 547-563.
Reischmann, T., Bachtadse, V., Kroner, A. and Layer, P.,  1992 - Geochronology and palaeomagnetism of a late Proterozoic island arc terrane from the Red Sea Hills, northeast Sudan: in    Earth and Planetary Science Letters,   v.114, pp. 1-15.
Stoeser, D.B., Whitehouse M.J. and Stacey, J.S.,  2001 - The Khida Terrane - Geology of Paleoproterozoic Rocks in the Muhayil Area, Eastern Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia: in    Gondwana Research   v.4, pp. 192-194.
Stoeser,D.B. and Frost, C.D.,  2006 - Nd, Pb, Sr, and O isotopic characterization of Saudi Arabian Shield terranes: in    Chemical Geology,   v.226, pp. 163-188.
Wipfler, E.L.,  1996 - Transpressive structures in the Neoproterozoic Ariab-Nakasib Belt, northeast Sudan: evidence for suturing by oblique collision: in    J. of African Earth Sciences   v.23, pp. 347-362.
Zoheir, B.A., Johnson, P.R., Goldfarb, R.J. and Klemm, D.D.  2019 - Orogenic gold in the Egyptian Eastern Desert: Widespread gold mineralization in the late stages of Neoproterozoic orogeny: in    Gondwana Research   v.75, pp. 184-217.


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