Benha University

Mostafa Mohammad Mujahid Ahmed

Professor

Faculty of Science Geology

Post-Collisional Mantle Processes and Magma Evolution of the El Bola Mafic–Ultramafic Intrusion, Arabian-Nubian Shield, Egypt

Minerals • 2025
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Authors Abdelfadil, K.M. , Semary, H.E. , Asran, A.M. , ... Aldukeel, A. , Mogahed, M.M.
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Journal Minerals
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Volume 2025, 15(7), 705
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publication.type International
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Abstract
The El Bola mafic–ultramafic intrusion (EBMU) in Egypt’s Northern Eastern Desert represents an example of Neoproterozoic post-collisional layered mafic–ultramafic magmatism in the Arabian–Nubian Shield (ANS). The intrusion is composed of pyroxenite, olivine gabbro, pyroxene gabbro, pyroxene–hornblende gabbro, and hornblende-gabbro, exhibiting adcumulate to heter-adcumulate textures. Mineralogical and geochemical analyses reveal a coherent trend of fractional crystallization. Compositions of whole rock and minerals indicate a parental magma of ferropicritic affinity, derived from partial melting of a hydrous, metasomatized spinel-bearing mantle source, likely modified by subduction-related fluids. Geothermobarometric calculations yield crystallization temperatures from ~1120 °C to ~800 °C and pressures from ~5.2 to ~3.1 kbar, while oxygen fugacity estimates suggest progressive oxidation (log fO2 from −17.3 to −15.7) during differentiation. The EBMU displays Light Rare Earth element (LREE) enrichment, trace element patterns marked by Large Ion Lithophile Element (LILE) enrichment, Nb-Ta depletion and high LILE/HFSE (High Field Strength Elements) ratios, suggesting a mantle-derived source that remained largely unaffected by crustal contribution and was metasomatized by slab-derived fluids. Tectonic discrimination modeling suggests that EBMU magmatism was triggered by asthenospheric upwelling and slab break-off. Considering these findings alongside regional geologic features, we propose that the mafic–ultramafic intrusion from the ANS originated in a tectonic transition between subduction and collision (slab break-off) following the assembly of Gondwana.
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