The Geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

­This richly illustrated book reviews the geology, tectonics and mineralization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) in 27 chapters. It starts with an examination of the ANS lithospheric scale features, explores Mesoproterozoic units and deals with the ANS oceanic stage. Arc volcanism and plutonism, post-collision basins and volcanics are discussed, as well as the younger granitoid magmatism and the deformation history of the ANS. The book provides information on ANS glacial stages and late magmatism. Chapters are devoted to review the transition between ANS and the reworked continent to its south. Finally, it discusses how ANS structures influenced the overall East African Rift System.

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Zakaria Hamimi is a Tectonics and Structural Geologist, currently at Benha University in Egypt, and has worked previously at Sana'a University, Yemen (1995-1998) and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (2003-2013). He obtained a BSc (distinction with Honors) in 1984 at Assiut University, a M.Sc in 1988 at Zagazig University, and a Ph.D in 1992 in Structural Geology and Tectonics at Cairo University. His research focusses on the tectonic evolution of the Arabian-Nubian Shield via structural/microstructural, paleostress and strain studies, aligned with geological mapping, geomorphology and remote sensing methodologies. His research output exceeds 80 research publications in national and international journals. Besides, He co-edited four Springer's books.

Zakaria Hamimi is the president, and a founding member of the Arabian Geosciences Union, since 2012. He has been awarded the medal of the Egyptian Geological Society of Egypt in 2015, and the medal of the Arab Mining and Petroleum Association in 2016. His services to the profession include his roles as Associate Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Geology (1998-2002) and the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2016-now); member of the Egyptian Universities Promotion Committee, Supreme Council for Universities, Egypt (2016-2019); Secretary of the National Committee for Geological Sciences, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (2016-2019), and later nominated for President of this Academic Committee in 2020; and the IUGS-Representative for Egypt in Cape Town 2016 and Thailand 2017.

Abdel-Rahman Fowler graduated with BSc (Honors, 1st Class) in Geology from Sydney University, Australia in 1977. After experience in the uranium and tin exploration and mining industry in NSW, Queensland and Northern Territory, he obtained a PhD in Structure and Tectonics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1986. He has instructed in Structural Geology and other geoscience disciplines at UNSW and LaTrobe University, Victoria, and has served at the United Arab Emirates University since 1999. His main interests lie in structural geology and tectonics, but extend to stratigraphy/sedimentology and geochemistry. He has conducted research work in Australia, Egypt, Turkey and UAE, and has published more than 40 papers in international journals and has contributed to books dealing with the geology of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. He has received awards for research excellence at UAEU.

Jean-Paul Liégeois spent his whole academic career at the Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren, Belgium. He is an isotope field geologist who has mainly focused on the geochemistry of granitic magmatism and the geodynamics of the Pan-African Orogeny in Sahara. He holds the M.Sc (ULg, 1979) from the University of Liège and the PhD from the University of Brussels (ULB, 1987). His Ph.D was devoted to the transition from calc-alkaline to alkaline granitic magmatism in the Pan-African Orogen in the Adrar des Iforas, Mali for which he received the "Prix Lucien Cahen" 1987 of the Belgian Overseas Royal Academy of Science. He worked in the joined RMCA-ULB Belgian Centre for Geochronology, which he co-directed for 20 years. He mostly worked in the Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean but mainly in the Tuareg Shield, Algeria, Mali and Niger, privileging working in partnership with colleagues and students from the concerned countries. He strongly contributed to decipher the meaning of the high-K calc-alkaline and alkaline granitoids and the terrane structure in the Saharan Pan-African belt and to establish the existence of the Saharan metacraton, as well as the concept of metacraton. He also worked in other parts of Africa especially in the West African craton (Morocco, Mali and Niger) but also in Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Cameroon and Central Africa. He worked punctually in Europe (Belgium, France and Romania) in terranes having links with the NW- African geology. If his personal contribution was field, geochronology, geochemistry and geodynamics, he always privileged collaboration with specialists in other disciplines, especially structural geology, metamorphic petrology, geophysics and sedimentology, generating a multidisciplinary approach. He has published 120 research articles in international indexed and refereed journals (h= 44) and co-edited several books. He was Regional Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of African Earth Sciences for 25 years and is member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. He is Officer of the Crown (Belgium) and the laureate of the R. Shackleton Award 2008 of the Geological Society of Africa for "Outstanding research on Precambrian Africa". Alan Collins ...

Inhalt
1. The Arabian-Nubian Shield, an introduction: historic overview, concepts, interpretations, and future issues.- 2. The boundary between the Saharan metacraton and the Arabian Nubian Shield: insight from Ediacaran shoshonitic granites of the Nuba Mountains (Sudan): UPb SHRIMP zircon dating, geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotope constraints.- 3. The Southern Part of the Arabian Nubian Shield in Kenya and Tanzania Harald Fritz and Christoph Hauzenberger.- 4. Tectonic Evolution of the Pan-African Belt in Western Ethiopia, Southern Arabian-Nubian Shield.- 5. Neoproterozoic Crustal Evolution of the northernmost Arabian-Nubian Shield, south Jordan.