The topography and geology of the Fayum province of EgyptBeadnell, H. J. L. (Hugh John Llewellyn)
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The topography and geology of the Fayum province of Egypt
Beadnell, H. J. L. (Hugh John Llewellyn)
Geology -- Egypt
8. Greenish or white sand and sand-rock 3
9. Variegated sandy clays; sand-rock with occasional
fragments of bone 6
10. White sand-rock 1
11. Rose-coloured sandstone 2
12. Hard grey white marly clays 2½
13. Coarse yellow sandstone 5
14. Reddish, white, and variegated sands and sand-rock 8
15. Grey, reddish and yellowish clays, with bands full of
plant-remains 3½
16. Brown clayey, sandstone 2
17. Greenish sandstone 1
18. Sandy grey clay 1½
19. Hard grey sandstone ½
20. Greenish sand-rock and clayey sandstone 3
21. Dark red clay 1
22. Sands, etc.; outcrop of bed covered with silicified trees
of large dimensions, 12-15 metres long 10
23. Clays with hard grey false-bedded sandstone and showing
fine mammilary weathering at top. Silicified logs on
surface 8
24. Red clays, sandy clays and argillaceous sands 4
25. Reddish sand-rock 1
26. Yellowish sand-rock, in part false-bedded 2
27. Red clays with thin sandy bands 1½
28. Coarse grey sandstone 2
29. Red and green sandy clays with thin band of hard white
sandstone at top 1
30. Bright red clay 4
31. Red clays with thin green sandy bands 3
32. Greenish sand-rock with thin red clayey bands 1
33. Reddish white mottled clayey sandstones passing up into
red and white mottled clays and sandy clays 8
34. Fine white sand }
} 3
35. Black ferruginous silicified sandstone }
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Total thickness 90
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_Base._
Junction with Middle Eocene (Qasr el Sagha series).
[Illustration: PLATE X.
EL QATRANI RANGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.]
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