Balanced cross-sections are offering the chance of better understanding of areas of complex geological structures that are insufficiently understood. Detailed field study and structural analysis by employing geometric ...

The "Simisma Member" from the Ras Laffan area in North Qatar is mainly composed of dolomites of shallow marine origin. Clay minerals contained in the dolomite (average 4%) are mainly palygorskites. There is no indication ...

Dubai creek can be considered as the focal point of Dubai. It has great importance for trading and aesthetic values. Total and leachable heavy metals (Cd, Co, Ni, Pb and Zn), organic carbon and total carbonate were studied ...

The Holocene palaeozoogeography of southern Iraq (Southern Mesopotamian Basin) have been studied according to the distribution of thirteen species of shallow marine ostracoda belonging to twelve genera. Their distributary ...

One hundred and thirty nine new chemical analyses of major and trace elements for 26 plutons and masses pertaining to the Egyptian Younger Granites are presented together with the chemical analyses of 13 biotites, 32 ...

The rocks of the Zabara district include ophiolitic and non-ophiolitic sequences. The ophiolitic ones are metagabbro and metabasalt associated with metasediments, whereas the non -ophiolitic sequence includes intermediate ...

Glaciations affected the Arabian Peninsula three times. This was during the Late Ordovician, the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, and the Pleistocene. Recorded evidence of Paleozoic glaciations in Arabia, includes tillites, ...

El-Batts Demo Area constitutes a part of El-Fayoum province in Egypt, it is dominated by clay formations 17 meters thickness, covered in part by a thin layer of Pleistocene deposits. XRD studies reveal that smectite is ...

This study aims to document the Neocomian to Aptian palynological assemblages recorded in the Mersa Matruh borehole, north West Desert, Egypt. These palynological assemblages, consisting mainly of dinocysts, miospores and ...

An analysis of the seismic risk is carried out for the Red Sea region for the recorded earthquakes in the area between 1. January 1913 and 31 December 1982. The maximum likelihood method was applied to determine the hazard ...