CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF WADI GABGABA : AND ENVIRONS, SOUTH' LA'STERN DESERT, EGYPT.

Abstract

The geological history of the study area dates back to the Precambrian, the age of African Shield A significant part of this shield is seen to the east of the area studied , manifested in the multicolored, serrated and high mountains known as the Red Sea Hills Over this shield at the piedmont of the basement mountains lies a table land of highly tilted Paleozoic bods sandstone sandstone overlain by nearly horizontal I drape . is due to the westward retreat of this horizontal drape away from the basement mountains that this the Paleozoic sediments in remote area became exposed . In general the sediments make two sinuous belts running in juxtaposition to the eastern basement mountains