Detailed ground radiometric surveys on Gabal El Sela, Southeastern Desert, Egypt

Autor: Saleh E. Ammar, H. El-Shayeb, Haridy M. M. Haridy, Helmy S. O. Abouelnaga, Atef Abu Donia
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 7:1577-1586
ISSN: 1866-7538
1866-7511
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-0897-2
Popis: Gabal El Sela area lies in the extreme southeastern part of the eastern desert in Egypt. It is covered by basement rocks of different compositions. The detailed work in this area covers about 4 km2 and it is represented mainly by coarse younger granite as a curved shape extended in NE–SW direction and dissected by many faults in various trends; some of them are invaded by dykes especially the lamprophyre dykes in the ENE–WSW trend. Detailed geological, structural, and radiometric investigations are carried out on the area. The radiometric data are statistically analyzed and the results show that the total count radiometric map reflects six separate anomalies. The field work revealed that four anomalies are related to lamprophyre dykes, the other two anomalies are structurally controlled by NE–SW and E–W faults. These anomalies are followed by some trenches which traced and measured in detail exhibiting the possible extension of these anomalies with depth. These measurements show that lamprophyre dyke has the highest reading of radioactivity, it reaches 270 Ur in the surface and to 6,300 in the trenches. While the granite of the sela area is considered possesses high level of radioactivity, where its radioactivity ranges from 19.9 to 81 Ur with an average of about 32 Ur.
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