The origin and use of basalt in Old King
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Leanne M. Mallory-Greenough; John D. Greenough; J. Victor Owen
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Conventional petrographic analysis suggests that basalts in Old Kingdom funerary temples are mineralogically and texturally similar to the Haddadin basalt flow of northern Egypt. To affirm that the Haddadin flow is the stone source, a total of 88 augite and 74 plagioclase electron microprobe analyse