Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1979
Abstract
A map is compiled from radar (STR-C) images of paleo-channels in a region 1n southwestern Egypt, including the Gilf Kebir plateau, the Selima Sand Sheet, and the Great Sand Sea. This has revealed an abundance of channels that do not appear in conventional maps of the rea and shows that major drainage channels empty into depressions that underlie the Great Sand Sea and Selima Sand Sheet. [t. 1S i5 suggested that these/sand seas were lowland areas in learlier trnes and that rivers probably transported and deposited the sand, which was later shaped A eolian processes. It implies that these areas may be underlain by E tially large amounts of ground water. The latter woulgmnave seeped the underlying porous sandstone during periods of wet climate in the past.
Recommended Citation
El-Baz, Farouk and Robinson, Cordula A., "Paleo-channels reveald by sir-c data in the western desert of Egypt : implications to sand dune accumulations" (1979). Farouk El-Baz Library. 16.
https://buescholar.bue.edu.eg/farouk_el-baz_library/16