Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Nuqeib Area |
Political location(s): |
Israel; Nearest community: Engev (2 mi N) |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in conglomerate horizon within calcareous ss |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Neogene (host rocks) |
Tectonic setting: |
continental basin-graben; divergent (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks; Magma series/sedimentary package/metamorphic group: red bed; Depositional setting: shallow marineHost rock stratigraphy: | Herod Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in conglomerate horizon within calcareous ss; mineralization near main fault of graben; ss usually silty or clayey/ cglt composed of ls/ chalk/ flint/ basalt |
References: |
Michelson, H., 1971 |
Copper Mineralization in the Herod Formation of the Southern Golan Heights, Israel |
Journal of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, Volume 20 |
Schutz, K.I ., 1994 |
Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez Basin
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in Interior Rift Basins, Edited by Landon, S. M., World Petroleum Basin Memoir , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 59, 257 p, p. 57 - 96 |
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