Author(s)

Khairiya M. Fawzy

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt.

The alkali feldspar granite of Gabal El Atawi is post orogenic granite originated from subalkaline magma in extensional suite. It is developed within plate tectonic setting and has A₂-type character which generated from apparent crustal source. The petrographic, geochemical and radioactive characteristics of El Atawi granite meet and fulfill the requirements of being fertile granite and it can be considered as promising uraniferous granite. Fluid inclusion studies of the altered granite elucidated two different solutions acting on the host granitic pluton. The first is NaCl-CaCl low temperature fluid with a wide range of salinity. The second is high temperature and salinity Fe-Mg-Na chloride solution. Different fractures in the granite acted as good channels for the hydrothermal fluids that leached uranium from its bearing minerals disseminated all over the host granite and redeposited it in the alteration zones.

Radioactivity, Geochemistry, Post-Orogenic, A-Type Granite, Gabal El Atawi, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

Fawzy, K. (2017) Characterization of a Post Orogenic A-Type Granite, Gabal El Atawi, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: Geochemical and Radioactive Perspectives. Open Journal of Geology, 7, 93-117. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2017.71007.