Heat flow in Eastern Egypt: The thermal signature of a continental breakup     

P. Morgan  F. K. Boulos  S. F. Hennin  A. A. El-Sherif  A. A. El-Sayed  N. Z. Basta  Y. S. Melek 《Journal of Geodynamics》1985,4(1-4)

The Red Sea is a modern example of continental fragmentation and incipient ocean formation. Heat flow data have been collected from eastern Egypt to provide information relating to the mode and mechanism of Red Sea opening. Preliminary heat flow data, including new data reported here, are now available from twenty-five sites in eastern Egypt and one site in western Sinai. A pattern of low to normal heat flow (35–55 mW m⁻²) inland with high heat flow (75–100 mW m⁻²) in a zone within 30 to 40 km of the coast is indicated.Moderately high heat flow (around 70 mW m⁻²) is indicated for the Gulf of Suez. The coastal zone thermal anomaly appears continuous with high heat flow previously reported for the Red Sea shelf. Heat production data indicate that the coastal thermal anomaly is not primarily related to crustal radiogenic heat production. The effects of rapid erosion may contribute to the anomaly, but are not thought to be the primary cause of the anomaly. If the anomaly is caused by lateral conduction from hot, extended, offshore lithosphere, the extension must have been active for the last 30 Ma or so, and a minimum of 100% extension is indicated. Alternatively, the anomaly is primarily caused by high mantle heat flow causing lithospheric thinning, centred beneath the Red Sea. The Red Sea is probably underlain by dominantly basic crust, formed either by intrusion into attenuated continental crust or sea-floor spreading, and for most purposes the crust formed in these two modes of extension may be essentially indistinguishable. Fission-track ages from eastern Egypt indicate that uplift started prior to, or at latest at the time of initial Red Sea opening, and this result, together with thermo-mechanical considerations, suggests an active asthenospheric upwelling beneath the Red Sea and high temperature in the lithosphere prior to extension.  相似文献   

Dissolved organic matter in coastal waters at Jeddah,Saudi Arabia     

A.K.A. Behairy  M.M. El-Sayed 《Marine pollution bulletin》1984,15(3):113-116

Water samples collected during April 1982–April 1983 from Red Sea coastal waters at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, were investigated for dissolved organic carbon, dissolved organic nitrogen, dissolved lipid, dissolved organic phosphorus, dissolved monosaccharides, total dissolved sugars and dissolved polysaccharides. All showed extremely high values at two stations. This can be attributed to the direct effect of untreated wastes on these two locations and the limited water exchange between the study area and the open sea.  相似文献   

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Neoproterozoic Granitoids in the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt     

M.M. El-Sayed  F.H. Mohamed  H. Furnes  S. Kanisawa 《Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry》2002,62(4):317-346

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Editorial     

El-Sayed El-Bushra 《GeoJournal》1986,13(2):101-101

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Atacama Field Campaign: laboratory and in-situ measurements for remote sensing applications     

Cristian Mattar  Andrés Santamaría-Artigas  Flavio Ponzoni  Cibele T. Pinto  Carolina Barrientos  Glynn Hulley 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2019,12(1):43-61

This work presents the preliminary results of the first field calibration campaign performed in the Atacama Desert, Chile, between the 18 and 22 August 2014, called the Atacama Field Campaign (ATAFIC 2014). In situ measurements were performed in order to spectrally characterize the surface reflectance spectra between 0.3 and 2.5?µm, radiometric temperature (8.0–14.0?µm) and atmospheric measurements. A soil sample was collected and analyzed using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction techniques to characterize the surface reflectance spectra and mineralogical composition, respectively. ASTER land surface emissivity in addition to GOES, MODIS and Landsat-8 land surface temperature (LST) were also used. Results showed that the spectral features of the Atacama soil and the characteristics of this geographical zone, which is featured as the most hyper-arid and cloudless place in the world, make this area a potential target for surface reflectance characterization. Day and night LST comparison between field and remote sensing data are lower than 2?K and the Root Mean Square Error for land surface emissivity is close to 2%. This work opens the possibilities to consider the Atacama Desert as a reference target for calibration and validation activities for earth observation missions’ purposes.  相似文献   

Geomechanical evaluation of Pliocene natural aggregates as pavement materials     

El-Sayed Sedek Abu Seif 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(4):1567-1576

Asphaltic roads and constructions in Egypt annually consume a huge amount of aggregates. The physical and geomechanical properties of these aggregates have controlled their performance in which they are used. All road pavements require the efficient use of locally available materials if economically constructed roads are to be built. More than 650 million m³ of fine and coarse aggregates are herein selected to be the tonnage of the present study. The studied Pliocene aggregates have smoothed grading curves and neither a deficiency nor excess of any one particle size, generally produce good mixtures with fewer voids between particles. The litho-particles of coarse aggregates are composed mainly of granites, gneisses, granodiorite, gabbro, and quartz particles. The sand equivalent value of fine aggregates varies from 95 to 97 %. The specific gravity values of the studied aggregates vary from 2.72 to 2.74 gm/cm³ for coarse aggregate and range from 2.51 to 2.54 gm/cm³ for fine aggregate. The Los Angles abrasion value varies from 19 to 24 %. Both coarse and fine aggregates meet the international standards which are suitable for usage as subbase and surface course aggregates, respectively.  相似文献   

An Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) actinopterygian fish assemblage from the marginal marine Adaffa Formation of Saudi Arabia     

Benjamin P. Kear  Thomas H. Rich  Mohammed A. Ali  Yahya A. Al-Mufarrih  Adel H. Matiri  Abdu M. Al-Masary  Yousry Attia 《Cretaceous Research》2009,30(5):1164-1168

Actinopterygian remains have been recovered from Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian to lower Maastrichtian) marginal marine deposits of the Adaffa Formation in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The fossils comprise gars (Lepisosteidae), pachycormids (cf. Protosphyraena sp.), indeterminate pycnodontiforms, enchodontid teleosts (cf. Enchodus sp.) and other indeterminate Teleostei. This assemblage is significant because it includes a novel occurrence for the Middle East (Pachycormidae) together with taxa (Lepisosteidae, Pycnodontiformes, Enchodontidae) that have been previously recorded from Late Cretaceous faunas elsewhere in the Mediterranean Tethyan region.  相似文献   

Motion of artificial satellites in the set of Eulerian redundant parameters,II     

Mohammed Adel Sharaf  Mervat El-Sayed Awad  Samiha Al-Sayed Abdullah Najmuldeen 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1991,55(3):223-231

In this paper the full recurrent power series solution is established for J ₂-gravity perturbed motion in terms of the Eulerian redundant parameters. Applications of the method for the problem of the final state prediction are illustrated by numerical examples of some typical ballistic missiles, a final state of very high accuracy is obtained for each case study.  相似文献   

Assessing the engineering properties of concrete made with fine dune sands: an experimental study   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

El-Sayed Sedek Abu Seif 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2013,6(3):857-863

Sand dunes cover an area of 16.6% of the total area of Egypt. This paper presents the results of an extensive laboratory testing that was carried out to determine the engineering properties of concrete. The concrete fine aggregate is fine dune sands obtained from three sites in the Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. All samples were classified as poorly graded sand according to the Unified Soil Classification system. Fineness modulus values of the studied dune sands range from 0.89 to 0.97. The percentage of sulfates and chlorides are very low and nearly negligible. Sodium and calcium hydroxides were recorded in some samples with scarce concentration. Organic impurities were not recorded. The degree of workability of the studied dune sands ranged from low to medium, which are suitable for normal reinforced work without vibration and heavily reinforced section with vibration. The measured compressive strength of concrete decreases with increasing dune sand content.  相似文献   

地理信息共享行为模型及其实证研究     

余旭  El- Sayed Ewis Omran  何建邦 《地球信息科学学报》2010,12(4):487-495

地理信息共享不仅是地球系统科学发展的必然要求,而且对推动科学数据共享具有重要意义。自地理信息共享的概念提出以来,对地理信息共享的研究主要集中在地理信息共享技术上,但地理信息共享的实践证明,并非所有地理信息共享的障碍都能通过技术方法来解决,因此需要从非技术视角对地理信息共享进行研究。本文从新的视角,即行为的视角对地理信息共享进行了研究。本文介绍了地理信息共享行为模型,在对我国同地理信息共享有关的主要部门的问卷调查的基础上,通过实证研究,定量地分析了影响我国地理信息共享的非技术因素。结合Omran在埃及和荷兰的实证研究结果,分析了文化差异对地理信息共享行为的影响。在定性和定量分析的基础上,检验和修正了地理信息共享行为模型,并以此为基础,为我国的地理信息共享环境建设提出了相关的建议。实证研究的结果也表明,地理信息共享行为模型在不同的文化背景下的适用性。  相似文献