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Northwestern Desert ==> The Kohla Formation Flashcards

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Author

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Keeley, 1989

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Age

Thickness

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Upper Silurian

80-600m

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Lithology

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Fluvioglacial tidal flat sandstone and mudstone with marine clay stone

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Equivalent

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Naqus formation in Sinai and northeastern desert

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Boundaries

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dis conformity overlies the shifa formation and conformity underlies the upper Silurian Basur formation

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Faunal content and environment deposition

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The occurrence of the fluvioglacial deposits denotes glacial conditions during the upper Ordovician Silurian time and represented the Naqus formation in other parts in Egypt

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Geology of Egypt (Paleozoic) (24 decks)

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