A Description of the First Or Aswan Cataract of the Nile - Couverture rigide

Ball Dr, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1356943578 ISBN 13 : 9781356943579

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Chapter I. INTI lpIWCTQ flRY. General nature of Nile Cataracts. Position ofF irst Cataract. History of the Cataract districtrR elation of A s;an (S yene) to ancient geography. Literature appertaining tcL rjfti vJ Cataract. Outline of the work of the Geological Survey at the cataract 7C hapter II. TOPOGRAPHY. General outline of the topography of the district. The Nile and the Cataract. A swan and its environs. The country between A swan and Philse. The cataract-islands between Elephantine and the dam. The west bank between the monastery of St.-S imeon and the dam. Tlie reservoir. The islands south of the dam. The east river-bank south of the dam. The west river-bank south of the dam 26 Chapter III. GEOLOGY. General outline of the geological structure of the district. The Recent dei osits. Blown sand. Older gravels, muds and clay. Modern river sand. Nile mud. Modern deposits other than from theN ile. Nubian sandstones and clays. Igneous and metamorphic rocks. Coarse-grained red granite. Fine-grained red granite. Syenite. Diorite. Quartz-felsite. Syenite-porphyry. Porphyrite. Enstatiteporphyrite. A plite. Pegmatite. Mica-diabase. Basalt. Gneiss. Mica-schist. Hornblende-schist. General conclusions, with especial reference to the dynamical evidences and the physical geology. A ge of the oldest cataract-rocks. Outline of the geological History of the cataract. Faults at the cataract. Ancient course of theN ile. Causes of the changes in the river.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1356943578
• ISBN 13: 9781356943579
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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