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[2]: 90 Egypt leads Africa in the extraction of both talc and gypsum. It is second in salt production, third for phosphate and vermiculite, and fourth for iron ore. [3] Egypt also extracts oil, and is the largest non-OPEC producer of oil in Africa. Additionally, Egypt also produces the second most natural gas in Africa.
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Geology of Egypt (10 C, 9 P) H. ... Landmarks in Egypt (3 C, 2 P) M. Maps of Egypt (2 P) Military locations of Egypt (2 C) N.
Bahariya Formation (Egypt) The Bahariya Formation (also transcribed as Baharija Formation ) is a fossiliferous geologic formation dating back to the early Cenomanian , which outcrops within the Bahariya depression in Egypt , and is known from oil exploration drilling across much of the Western Desert where it forms an important oil reservoir .
The oldest preserved geologic map is the Turin papyrus (1150 BCE), which shows the location of building stone and gold deposits in Egypt. [1] [2] The earliest geologic map of the modern era is the 1771 "Map of Part of Auvergne, or figures of, The Current of Lava in which Prisms, Balls, Etc. are Made from Basalt.
Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,002,450 km 2 (387,050 sq mi). The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
Essay and Maps: Groundwater Resources of the Nubian Aquifer System; El Sayed. A Study of Hydrogeological Conditions of the Nubian Sandstone Aguifer in the Area between Abu Simbel & Toschka, Western Desert, Egypt American Geophysical Union 2001; A.C. Seward: Leaves of Dicotyledons from Nubian sandstone of Egypt, Geological Survey, 1935.
This region was the primary source of amethyst in Ancient Egypt. [7] This region's geology is quite diverse and rare due to the meeting of Precambrian basement of metamorphic gneiss with the younger Cretaceous Nubian sandstone. [7] Based on the compositions of the country rock, quartz, amethyst, and gold are abundantly found here.