The Topography and Geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt

By: Al-Misahah, Egypt. Maslahat

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of Zeuglodon in the underlying series from the island in the Birket el Qurun. Subsequently1 he obtained additional remains of the same cetacean in a violet marl belonging to the present series, from a locality 12 kilometres west of Qasr el Saghas; these remains, as already mentioned, were described by Dames as Z. Osiris. Since then important finds of land and marine mammals and reptiles have been made in different Ijeds of this series; these will be referred to later. The outcrop of the Qasr el Sagha series occupies a large part of the northern desert of the Fayflm. The beds are, however, best seen in the cliffs about 8 kilometres north of the Birket el Qurun, where they form a steep double escarpment, running east and west, nearly parallel to the northern shore of the lake. The dip of the series being northward at a very low angle, and the upward slope of the ground being in the same direction, this cliff dies out a few kilometres north-east of Qasr el Sagha. A little further north, however, a N.W.-S.E. fold and fault again exposes nearly the whole of the beds of the series, forming prominent cliffs as before. In the conspicuous hill 17 kilometres 28 N. of E. (magnetic) of Tamia the series consists of innumerable alternations of clays and sand)-limestone. The calcareous beds nearly always contain numerous examples of Carolia placunoides, Ostrea and Turritella of several species, but other well-preserved fossils are rare. The exposed beds here have a thickness of about 55 metres, and are underlain by the Birket el Qurun beds with a wellmarked band of concretionary sandstone, the thickness of the two series together being 127 metres. The upper beds of the former series are not here exposed, the top of the hill being 1...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1154908542
• ISBN13: 9781154908541
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"