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V.—On some supposed Pholas-borings from the Shores of Birket el Qurûn, the ancient Lake Moeris, of the Fayûm, Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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In a review of Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell's important Memoir on the Topography and Geology of the Fayûm Province of Egypt, published by the Egyptian Geological Survey in 1905, I briefly referred in passing to some “curious blocks of sandstone, pierced by numerous borings”, described by the author, and I added, “they appear to be the exact replica of specimens brought home from Lake Tanganyika by Mr. J. E. S. Moore” (p. 519).

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 9 , September 1910 , pp. 398 - 402
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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page 398 note 1 See Geol. Mag., 1905, pp. 516–19.

page 399 note 1 See infra, p. 401.

page 401 note 1 See pl. xvi. View near the western end of the Birket el Qurûn, also view of the north side looking west, pl. i, in MrBeadnell's, Memoir on the Topography and Geology of the Fayûm Province of Egypt (Cairo, 1905).Google Scholar

page 401 note 2 Now occupying only 225 square kilometres, the whole area of the Fayûm depression, much of which was once a lake, covering about 12,000 square kilometres.

page 402 note 1 A Preliminary Investigation of the Soil and Water of the Fayûm Province, by Lucas, A., Survey Department, Cairo, 1902.Google Scholar