Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Abstract
El-Faiyum Depression in the M Wester Desert of Egypt is a structurally- controlled tectonic basin, marked by northeast-striking faults along its northemn marg Tese faults are parallel to similar faults of the Syrian arc fold belt, which d 1a,inbltidos of related faulls, folds, push-up structures, and basins. L Lake Qarun S loeated ir-the worthern part of El-Faiyum depression, at a right-step bctween two strands of the NE Mriking fault System. Wc suggest that Lake Qarun, resting at 45 meters. below.sea levet, is a pull-apart (?) basin formed along dextral strike slip faults related tothe Syrian ate Eocene-Pliocene deposits of the Faiyum depression may be thernal subsidence, phasendeposits related extension mn the Lake Qarun pull-apart. The Syrian arc helt has\been active intermittently from the Cretaceous through the present, consistent wittho rycord of recent seismicity in the Faiyu depression. We recommend the inittation a program for detailed mapping, satellite image interpretation, fopograptiit"modeling, and seismie monitoring to better understand and help reduce the hazards associated with active faulting in the area.
Recommended Citation
El-Baz, Farouk; Yehia, M. A.; Ramadan, T.; and Kusky, T. M., "Notes on the structural and neotectonic evolution of El-Faiyum depression, Egypt : relationships to earthquake hazards" (2000). Farouk El-Baz Library. 162.
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