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II.—The Fayûm Depression: A Preliminary Notice of the Geology of a District in Egypt containing a new Palæogene Vertebrate Fauna1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Hugh J. L. Beadnell
Hugh J. L. Beadnell
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Egypt.
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The Fayûm, one of the largest depressions of the Libyan Desert, is situated some 50 miles south-west of Cairo. It is cut out in rocks of Eocene and Oligocene age, while still younger deposits of Pliocene and Post-Pliocene date are found within the hollow. The depression owes its origin to the action of the ordinary subærial denuding agents, which I have shown in previous papers were capable of producing the oases-depressions of Baharia, Farafra, Dakhla, etc. Faulting, which has played so important a part in the formation of the Nile Valley, appears to have had little or nothing to do with the production of the Fayûm and other depressions of the Libyan Desert.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 12 , December 1901 , pp. 540 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1901

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Communicated in abstract to the British Association at Glasgow, 1901, by permission of Sir William Garstin, K.C.M.G., Under-Secretary of State, and Capt. H. G. Lyons, Director-General of the Survey Department, Cairo.

References

1 Beadnell, : “Recent Geological Discoveries in the Nile Valley and Libyan Desert”; London, 1901Google Scholar.