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The Geology of the Farsan Islands, Gizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. A. Macfadyen
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The Farsan Islands form a group in the southern part of the Red Sea, about 17° N. Lat., 42° E. Long., and lie some 40 km. off the Asir Coast of south-west Arabia. The two main islands are Farsan Kebir (whose north-western arm is known as Seïr), and Segíd, which nestle together with a length of 60 km. and breadth of roughly 25 km. There are five smaller islands varying in length from 5 to 13 km., and a host of minor islets and rocks. The islands are in general of rather low elevation, not rising to more than 10 to 20 metres above sea-level. Local hills occur up to 75 metres, and are mostly due to faulting, occasionally to folding.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 67 , Issue 7 , July 1930 , pp. 310 - 315
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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page 311 note 1 Macfadyen, W. A., 1930, “The Undercutting of Coral Reef Limestone on the Coasts of some Islands in the Red Sea,” Geographical Journal, vol. lxxv, pp. 27–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 314 note 1 Major M. Connolly has kindly identified these as Zootecus insularis (Ehrenberg) and Euryptixis labiosus (Müller).