Structural Setting of El Qaa Half Graben, Gulf of Suez Rift, Egypt

Mamdouh M. Abdeen

ISBN 10: 3659333565 / ISBN 13: 9783659333569

Published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Jul 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book focuses on the structural setting of the well known 'El Qaa Fault Block' which is a NE-dipping block in the eastern side of the Gulf of Suez rift, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The Gulf of Suez rift is the northwestern arm of the Oligo-Miocene Red Sea rift. The structural model presented in this study involves the young age of the oblique faults relative to the rift-parallel (Clysmic) faults and their relation to the movement on the Dead Sea transform. 184 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structural Setting of El Qaa Half Graben, Gulf of Suez Rift, Egypt
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Jul 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659333565
• ISBN 13: 9783659333569
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 12D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 292 grams

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Synopsis

This book focuses on the structural setting of the well known "El Qaa Fault Block" which is a NE-dipping block in the eastern side of the Gulf of Suez rift, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The Gulf of Suez rift is the northwestern arm of the Oligo-Miocene Red Sea rift. The structural model presented in this study involves the young age of the oblique faults relative to the rift-parallel (Clysmic) faults and their relation to the movement on the Dead Sea transform.

About the Author

Assoc. Prof. of Structural Geology and Head of Geological Applications and Mineral Resources Division at the Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences in Cairo.Born in 1959 in Cairo, EgyptB.Sc. & M.Sc. in Geology, 1981 & 1988, Ain Shams University, Cairo. PhD in Structural Geology, 1995 at Heidelberg University,Germany