The geography and geology of south-eastern EgyptBall, John
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The geography and geology of south-eastern Egypt
Ball, John
Geology -- Egypt; Physical geography -- Egypt
=Gebel Um Maiat=, a long high ridge stretching south-east from Gebel
Eidab, has three marked summits near its ends and centre; that at the
north end, which is the highest, is 928 metres, while the other two
are 870 and 842 metres above sea respectively. Another broken ridge,
of similar height, for which I could get no name from my guides,
forms a south-eastern prolongation of Um Maiat, and extends to
the Wadi Kalalat; this likewise has three well defined summits,
rising in order from north to south, to 875, 821, and 627 metres
respectively. These ridges are drained to the east by the Wadis
Murra (tributary of Abu Daba) and Mindeit. Their western drainage
has not been studied in detail, but it all reaches the sea, none of
it going Nilewards; part of the drainage is probably taken by each
of the Wadis Kalalat, Shut, and El Khiua.
To the east and north-east of the Um Gunud — Eidab — Um Maiat
range is a great expanse of lower hill country through which the
wadis cut their way eastwards for about fifteen kilometres to the
coast plain. The most conspicuous peaks in this lower hill country
are Gebels Um Huk, Abu Ghalqa, and Um Hegilig, all situated in its
north portion round about Wadis Lahami and Naait. Other low rugged
hills fill a triangular tract south-west of the main range.
=Gebel Um Huk= is a sharp granite peak, surmounted by a cairn,[109]
rising to 517 metres above sea-level near the south side of Wadi
Lahami, fourteen kilometres north-north-east of Gebel Um Gunud.
=Gebel Abu Ghalqa= is another high granite hill, also marked by a
cairn on its summit, seven kilometres south-south-east of Um Huk. The
cairn is 561 metres above sea-level, and is in latitude 24° 1′
7″, longitude 35° 16′ 47″.
=Gebel Um Hegilig= in a small rather spiky range of red granite
hills situated a little to the north-east of Gebel Um Gunud, near
the heads of Wadi Naait.
To the north-west of Berenice are several low hills on the coast
plain, which serve as landmarks and bear special names. =Grain el
Rih= is a conspicuous isolated low hill nearly opposite the place
where Wadi Naait emerges from the hills on to the plain, thirteen
and a half kilometres north-west of Berenice. =Khasheib Abu Daba=
is the name of some low bouldery granite hills at the place where
Wadi Abu Daba enters the plain. =Sikeit=, a landmark for Berenice,
from which it lies five kilometres north-west, is a low granite hill,
isolated on the plain and very conspicuous; its summit is seventy
metres above sea-level, or thirty-eight metres above the plain at
its foot.
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