The Geology of EgyptElsevier Publishing Company [distributors for the U.S.: American Elsevier Publishing Company, New York], 1962 - Science - 377 pages |
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Abu Roash anticline Araba Aswan Ataqa Baharia bands basalt basement basin Beadnell blocks Cairo Cairo-Suez calcareous Carboniferous Cenomanian Chalk clastic Dakhla shale deposits depression dikes dolomitic east eastern Egypt Eocene Eocene rocks Esna shale evaporites facies Farafra Farafra oasis faults fauna Fayum flint folds fossils Gebel Geological map Gharib Globigerina marls granite gravels Gulf of Suez Hume intercalations Jurassic Kharga Kharga oasis latitude limestone lithological lower Cretaceous lower Eocene Maastrichtian Maghara marine marls massif middle Eocene mineral Miocene Mokattam formation Nile Valley non-fossiliferous northern Galala northern Sinai Nubia sandstone Nummulites oasis Oligocene Ostrea overlying Paleocene Paleozoic plateau Pleistocene Pliocene Qena Quseir Red Sea reefal rock unit sands Santonian scarp sedimentary sediments Shukri southern Stable Shelf strata structure subsurface Suez region tectonic Thebes formation thickness thin Turonian Turonian-Santonian unconformity upper Cretaceous upper Eocene variegated shales Wadi Qena Western Desert Zittel