Dickinson, D. R., Dodson, M. H., Gass, I. G., & Rex, D. C. (1969). Correlation of initial87Sr/86Sr with Rb/Sr in some Late Tertiary volcanic rocks of South Arabia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 6(1), 84-90.

Köppen climate type:

BWh : Hot deserts climate

Nearest Settlements:

Place	Population	Distance
Aden	550,602 (2012)	33.3km
Laḩij	23,375 (2012)	39.4km

Mindat Locality ID:

343173

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:2:343173:6

GUID (UUID V4):

Erosional remnant of former volcano that was probably comparable in size with Aden Volcano, Aden Governorate, Yemen. The extant rocks cover an area of c. 4 x 1.5 km immediately adjacent to the coast, but the extrusive centre was probably about 2 km to the SE (Cox et al. 1969).

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Yemen

Aden Governorate
- Ras Imran Extinct Volcano
  - Jazirat Aziz Island

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Aden-Abiyan basinBasin
Red SeaNarrow Rift

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References

Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1970). The structural evolution and volcanic history of the Aden and Little Aden volcanoes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 124, 283-308.

Cox, K. G., Gass, I. G., & Mallick, D. I. J. (1970). The peralkaline volcanic suite of Aden and little Aden, South Arabia. Journal of Petrology, 11(3), 433-462.

Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4p.238

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