Island of volcanic rocks situated <1 km west of Ras Imran Extinct Volcano, Aden Governorate, Yemen, which is probably part of the same volcanic complex, but the northerly dips suggest it may be a part of a separate centre.

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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality

African Plate

Aden-Abiyan basinBasin
Red SeaNarrow Rift

Arabian PeninsulaPeninsula

Arabian PlateTectonic Plate

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References

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.

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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