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A geochemical tectonomagmatic classification of the A-type granitoids based on their magma types and tectonic regimes

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The two anorogenic (EA), (A1) and (AA), and postorogenic (PO), (A2) and (PA), alkaline groups, Bonin (1990), Eby (1992), and Hong et al. (1996), alternatively, can be further distinguished into hotspot, rift and post-continent–continent collision, post-subduction magma varieties, respectively, by using some binary and ternary elements relation diagrams. The hotspot varieties have the highest differentiated index values, while the rift varieties have a moderate to low differentiated index values compared to the post-continent–continent collision and the subduction varieties which have low differentiated index values. The hotspot and the post-continent–continent subgroups generated sodic, peralkaline magma type, and are characterized by oxidized tectonic setting regime, while the rift and the post-subduction alkaline varieties have both a sodic and potassic nature characterizing the peralkaline, the metaluminous, and the peraluminous magma types that are generated in both oxidized and reduced conditions.

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The author is gratefully thankful to Prof. Samir El Gaby, late and former head of the Geology Dept. at the Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt for his kind encouragement and insightful discussion, remarks and review that have greatly improved an earlier version of the manuscript. Due thanks should also be extended to Prof. M. H. Shalaby Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt; for his linguistic and editorial revisions of the manuscript.

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El Dabe, M.M. A geochemical tectonomagmatic classification of the A-type granitoids based on their magma types and tectonic regimes. Arab J Geosci 8, 187–193 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-013-1195-8

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