Facies architecture and controlling factors induced depositional model of the Quaternary carbonate eolianites in the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Egypt

The Kebibat quarry locates on the coastal area of Rabat. It is also known as ''The Rabat Human deposit'' due to the presence of human cranial bones in the quarry deposit. These remains of Hominines are related to the archaic Homo sapiens.The revision of the geological and geochronological context of Kebibat and its surroundings allowed clarifying the morpholitho-stratigraphic aspects of the different formations that constitute it, as well as their evolution during the Middle-Upper Pleistocene. The sedimentary unit that fossilized the human remains corresponds to a dune deposit (eolianite), which is part of a high-resolution sedimentary sequence (parasequence). Luminescence and U-Th dating indicate that this sequence was deposited between the end of the marine isotopic stage 7 (MIS 7) until the end of MIS 6.

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Facies architecture and controlling factors induced depositional model of the Quaternary carbonate eolianites in the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Egypt

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