Improving Coastal Vulnerability Index of the Nile Delta Coastal Zone, Egypt
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Growth Faults, a Distinct Carbonate-Siliciclastic Interface and Recent Coastal Evolution, NW Nile Delta, Egypt
A sharp, well-defined interface between a late Pleistocene carbonate sandstone ridge (kurkar) and Holocene unconsolidated coastal siliciclastic sediment has formed largely as a consequence of recent structural activity along the NW Nile delta coast at Abu Qir, Egypt. Joint patterns in the coastal kurkar exposed on land, and its irregular and dislocated configuration beneath Abu Qir Bay, suggest...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2157-7617
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000293