Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1993
Abstract
Late Pleistocene basinal sediments in Dakhla Oasis region, Egypt (243"- 26.5°N; 28*-30^E) comprise four stratigraphically equivalent facies of fluvio-lacustrine, mixed lacustrine pluvio-aeolian, pluvio-aeolian, and mixed aeolian - pluvio-aeolian origin. Inferred palaeoclimate was intermittently rainy and arid, Facies differences are attributed to/s spatially variable geologic responses to climate, conditioned 9 basin location with respect to runoff, aeolian influences, and sediment sources. Sediments are dated a la tentatively to dOkyr B.P. nfluences of orbitally forced insolation, temperature, and rainfanl, and atmospheric circulation on this peculiar palaeoclimate are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Brookes, Ian A., "Late pleistocene basinal sediments, Dakhla Oasis region, Egypt : a non interglacial pluvial" (1993). Farouk El-Baz Library. 174.
https://buescholar.bue.edu.eg/farouk_el-baz_library/174