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VI.—On the Occurrence of Lower Miocene Beds between Cairo and Suez

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. Barron
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[Published by permission of the Under-Secretary of State and the Director-General of the Survey Department, Egypt.]

Extract

It is remarkable that in this district so accessible to geologists and visited by so many observers, the presence of these beds has not hitherto been noted. When it is understood that the point where the main area occurs is only between 8 and 9 kilometres from Cairo, and lies immediately to the north of the Petrified Forest—a place visited by nearly all the travellers who come to Cairo—one is apt to doubt whether geologists have ever seriously examined this district.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1904

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References

page 603 note 1 “Sur les terrains néogènes de la Basse-Egypte et de l'isthme de Suez”: Comptes Bendus des Séances de l'Acad. des Sciences, 1900, pp. 402–3.

page 603 note 2 Miocän, Das”: Zeitschr. d. Deutseh. geolog. Gesellschaft, 1901, pp. 5259.Google Scholar

page 603 note 3 Ibid., pp. 120–127.

page 603 note 4 Ibid., p. 85.

page 605 note 1 Loc. cit., pp. 54–5.

page 605 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 53.

page 605 note 3 Loc. cit., pp. 106–112.