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
6. Hard yellow calcareous grit 5
7. Clays and clayey marls 7
8. Sandy beds 15
9. Hard sandstone (forms connecting ridge between ½
hill and escarpment)
10. Clays with thin sandstone bands }
} 40
11. Variable sandy and marly red clays with a hard }
yellowish sandstone band ten metres from base }
_Base of isolated hill._
12. Soft sands with chelonian and crocodilian remains 4
13. Sandy clays with chelonian and mammalian }
(_Arsinoitherium_) bones, capped by coarse grit, }
in part ferruginous silicified grit and quartzite } 1
}
14. White calcareous grit and marly limestone. Band }
of flint in places
_Summit of hill overlooking bone-pits._
14. Sandstone, becoming calcareous and passing up 10
into 3 m. of hard white calcareous grit, and
yellowish white bedded marly limestone with
calcite druses. Capped by ¼ m. hard tabular chert
and flint
15. Finely laminated grey shaly clays, sandy and }
marly clays, capped by 2 m. of mottled yellow and }
red sandstone and sandstone-grit } 10
}
16. Hard red, green, and brown sandstone }
17. Variegated grey, green and red clays, marly clays
and sandy beds, with thin bands of sandstone.
More arenaceous towards top 21
18. Hard grey sandstone; greenish sandy clays; hard
dark red marls and marly clays at top 6
19. Thin band of hard yellow limestone, capping salty
red clays and sandy clays 6
20. Soft greenish clayey sandstone capped by ½ m. of
hard false-bedded concretionary sandstone with
numerous enclosed coprolites 3
_Base of hill overlooking bone-pits._
21. Pink calcareous grit (forming summit of lowest
escarpment), with small flint and quartz pebbles
in some layers. An abundance of calcite and
gypsum 3
22. Mottled red and green clayey sandstone, clays and
clayey marls. Passing up into a hard sandy (or
clayey) dark red marl with greenish mottlings 7
23. Light yellow finely-laminated sandrock passing up
into dark red sandrock. Some clayey bands 10
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