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Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials
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: Received: 22 December 2023 / Approved: 25 December 2023 / Online: 25 December 2023 (05:26:03 CET)
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Wafik, A.; Aouad, N.E.; Daafi, Y.; Morsli, Y.; Chniouar, M.; Punturo, R.; Conte, A.M.; Guglietta, D.; Aba Sidi, W. Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials. Preprints2023, 2023121793. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1793.v1
Wafik, A.; Aouad, N.E.; Daafi, Y.; Morsli, Y.; Chniouar, M.; Punturo, R.; Conte, A.M.; Guglietta, D.; Aba Sidi, W. Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials. Preprints 2023, 2023121793. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1793.v1
Wafik, A.; Aouad, N.E.; Daafi, Y.; Morsli, Y.; Chniouar, M.; Punturo, R.; Conte, A.M.; Guglietta, D.; Aba Sidi, W. Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials. Preprints2023, 2023121793. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1793.v1
APA Style
Wafik, A., Aouad, N.E., Daafi, Y., Morsli, Y., Chniouar, M., Punturo, R., Conte, A.M., Guglietta, D., & Aba Sidi, W. (2023). Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1793.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Wafik, A., Daniela Guglietta and Wissale Aba Sidi. 2023 "Geological and Geochemical Characterization of Variscan Pegmatites in the Sidi Bou Othmane District, Central Jebilet Province, Morocco: Insights about Their Potential as a Source of Raw Materials" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1793.v1
Abstract
The Sidi Bou Othmane (SBO) pegmatite district is in the Central Jebilet massif, Occidental Meseta domain, Morocco. The SBO district is hosted essentially in a volcano-sedimentary series composed of the Late-Devonian Sarhlef shales. Pegmatite bodies crop out as dykes, which are oriented from N-S to E-W and are generally variably deformed with ductile and/or brittle structures with ante, syn- or post kinematic criteria. Petrographic observations of pegmatite dykes show that feldspars (i.e., albite, microcline) are the most abundant mineral phases, followed by quartz, micas, with tourmaline and accessory mineral as garnet, and zircon and secondary minerals as clinochlore, sericite, and illite. The geochemical study indicates that, according to the major pegmatite elements dykes of SBO have mainly a S-type granitic composition and are peraluminous granite with calc-alkalic affinity. The study of trace elements pointed out that SBO pegmatite formed under post-orogenic syn-collision context during the Variscan orogeny, by the partial melting of argilliferous sediment and can be ascribed to the muscovite-bearing pegmatite; moreover, they have a good potential on ceramic and contain minerals, such as feldspar, recently assessed as Critical raw materials by European Union.
Keywords
Central Jebilet; Sidi Bou Othmane; Pegmatite dykes; syn-collision; S-granite
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology
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