Seismic interpretation for the Jurassic/Paleozoic reservoirs of QASR gas field, Shushan-Matrouh basin north Western Desert, Egypt

Factors Affecting the Ultimate Compressive Strength of the Quaternary Calcarenites, North Western Desert, Egypt

The calcarenites carbonate rocks of the Quaternary ridges, which extend along the northwestern Mediterranean coastal plain of Egypt, represent an excellent model for the transformation of loose sediments to real sedimentary rocks by the different stages of meteoric diagenesis. The depositional and diagenetic fabrics of the rocks, in addition to the strata orientation, highly affect their ultima...

Geophysical Field Investigation of a Potential Hyper-arid Desert Analog to Mars: the Western Desert of Egypt

MARS: THE WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT. C. L. Dinwiddie, S. K. Sandberg, R. N. McGinnis, and R. E. Grimm, Department of Earth, Material, and Planetary Sciences, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238 ([email protected]), 116 Sycamore St. NE, No.6, Albuquerque, NM 87106, Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St., No.400, Boulder CO 80...

Hydrocarbon Potentials in the Northern Western Desert of Egypt

Extensional collapse along the Sevier Desert reflection , northern Sevier Desert basin , western United

Coogan and DeCelles (1996) provided a welcome addition to the debate on the Sevier Desert reflection. The evidence and arguments presented on the nature of this subsurface feature merit particular scrutiny, as they bear directly on a firstorder issue in tectonics: the mechanical paradox of low-angle normal faults. Field geologists have argued that in some cases such faults must have moved at di...

A revision of the Upper Cretaceous lepidosirenid lungfishes from the Quseir Formation, Western Desert, central Egypt

We evaluate new lungfish remains from the Upper Cretaceous Quseir Formation in the Western Dessert of southern Egypt. Taxa include Lavocatodus protopteroides, L. humei, L. giganteus, and Protopterus nigeriensis. We treat Lavocatodus as members of Lepidosirenidae based on the presence of a well-defined medial articular surface, in the absence of a symphyseal surface of corresponding prearticular...