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The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Waḥet El Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km 2 (490 mi 2 ) and 1,700 km 2 (656 mi 2 ).
There are also subordinate fault zones running from northwest to southeast and from east to west. They frame the Fayyum Basin on all sides. It can therefore be assumed that the basin was formed by tectonic tensile forces. These formed the depression in the transition from the Oligocene to the Miocene, possibly in connection with local volcanism.
Outcrops of the Jebel Qatrani Formation are present in the northern Fayum Depression southwest of Cairo. [1] The Fayum Depression is an oasis west of the Nile in northern Egypt. [2] The formations of the Fayum have been studied for a significant amount of time by numerous paleontologists, with research dating back to as early as the 19th century.
Faiyum (/ f aɪ ˈ j uː m / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo , in the Faiyum Oasis , it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate .
Aegyptopithecus skull. Aegyptopithecus was discovered by Elwyn Simons in 1966 in the Gabal Qatrani Formation, located in the Faiyum Governorate of central Egypt. [3] [4] Aegyptopithecus zeuxis fossils were originally thought to be between 35.4 and 33.3 million years old, based on initial analysis of the formation in which they were found.
The large fertile Faiyum Oasis, which comprises farmland, Lake Moeris, and some cities. South of the Faiyum Oasis, a smaller depression contains the town of El Gharaq el Sulţāni. It is also irrigated from the Nile. A dry barren depression named Wadi El Rayan, which covers 280 mi² (725 km²), west of the El Gharaq el Sulţāni depression.
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Fayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood. This is one of the clues that the region was a tropical climate.