Genesis and geometry of tilted blocks in the Theban Hills, near Luxor (Upper Egypt)

Dupuis, Christian; Aubry, Marie‐Pierre; King, Christopher; Knox, R. W. O’B.; Berggren, William A.; Youssef, Moustafa; Galal, Wael Fathi; Roche, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.06.001

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“…The Thebes Limestone Formation was subdivided into multiple units by various authors (Said 1960;Curtis 1979;Wüst 1995;Tawfik et al 2010;Dupuis et al 2011;King et al 2017). The units contain massive, bedded, and nodular (micritic) limestones, as well as marlstones.…”

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“…The original sediments were deposited during the Lower Eocene (Ypresian) in a neritic (as deep as 200 m), warm, open marine environment (King et al 2017;Abou El-Anwar et al 2018). The entire stratigraphic succession can be explored at El-Qurn (Tawfik et al 2010;Dupuis et al 2011), where the individual units form a stepped morphology with very steep cliffs separated by gently dipping slopes (Fig. 1b).…”

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“…2 Thickness and lithological description of the Thebes 1 sequence (i.e., unit A) modified after King et al (2017). Unit A contains marlstones to marly limestone at its bottom, limestones with layers of flints, and irregularly bedded to nodular limestones at its very top Pliocene to Pleistocene ages occur (Aubry et al 2007(Aubry et al , 2009Dupuis et al 2011), e.g., at the entrance area in the north-eastern part of the Valley.…”

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Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings

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The UNESCO world heritage site Valley of the Kings or Wadi el-Moluk (وادي الملوك) near Luxor, Egypt, hosts unique burial places of Egyptian kings and royals from the New Kingdom (c. 1539–1075 BCE) and attracts about 0.5 to 2 million tourists per year. Very steep to subvertical cliffs of Thebes Limestone surround the Valley of the Kings. The rock mass is cut by frequent joints and faults making the cliff walls prone to rockfalls. However, only few rockfall debris are found in the valley, likely due to natural remobilisation by flood events and artificial clearings and excavation works that rendered the natural debris cover over the millennia. This work focuses on rockfall susceptibility and runout and makes use of new high-resolution landscape surface models utilising terrestrial laser scanning. We investigated rockfall release areas by exploring rock mass fractures at 23 cliff segments and analysed the kinematics of potential rockfalls. Furthermore, we estimated potential rockfall deposition areas with CONEFALL supported by nine numerical simulations of single rockfall events using Rockyfor3D. We found that nearly 4500 m2 (26%) of the public walking paths and 24 out of 64 tomb entrance areas locate within potential rockfall runout zones.

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Section: Geological and Morphological Setting Of The Valley Of The Kingsmentioning

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“…Conversely, the hill above the KV62 tomb is constituted both by limestone of the Thebes formation and by natural aerated debris from the valley sides. Further details on the geology and on the properties of the materials could be found for example in Wust and McLane, 2000;Aubry et al, 2009, Dupuis at al., 2011, King et al, 2017 and other references cited therein. This paper is organized as follows.…”

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Geophysical anomalies detected by electrical resistivity tomography in the area surrounding Tutankhamun's tomb

Fischanger

Catanzariti²,

Comina

et al. 2019

Journal of Cultural Heritage

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Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) of the area surrounding Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings (Luxor, Egypt) reveals the presence of two anomalies located a few meters from Tutankhamun's funerary chamber. The strategy for ERT data acquisition and the adopted methods for data analysis are discussed in detail in this article, together with the possible archaeological significance of the detected anomalies.

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“…In 1905, Bead Nell termed Esna shale to describe the unit at its type locality at Gebel Owaina opposite Esna city, northeast of Sebaiya. Esna shale Formation is divided into four distinct lithological units from top to base (Dupuis et al, 2011): 1) Abu Had (alternation of marl and limestone beds with a few clayey intervals. It is lighter in color and richer in carbonate than the underlying member).…”

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Evaluation of the Expansive Esna Shale and Its Role in the Deterioration of Heritage Buildings at West Bank of Luxor

Gelany¹,

Zeid²,

El-sadek³

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The heritage buildings at the west bank of Luxor were affected by expansive Esna shale differentially from site to others. The role of expansive Esna shale was evaluated by using X-ray diffraction spectra (particle size, strain), X-ray fluorescence, basic soil properties test, swelling test, soil classification, and unconfined compression test. Three different samples were examined to determine the expansive role in the deterioration of heritage sites. The expansive is high, according to: (a) Soil classification based on plasticity index, (b) Classification chart based on the liquid limit and plastic index, (c) Classification chart based on clay content and activity, (d) Soil classification, and (e) Swelling pressure which determines the safety factor. In addition, expansive classification assesses that Esna shale Formation is one of environmental hazards characterized by damage role near Nile flood and irrigation area and characterized by deterioration role in heritage sites far from Nile flood and irrigation area. This paper refers to evaluation as a main process of integrated conservation approach.

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Genesis and geometry of tilted blocks in the Theban Hills, near Luxor (Upper Egypt)

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings

Rockfall susceptibility and runout in the Valley of the Kings

Geophysical anomalies detected by electrical resistivity tomography in the area surrounding Tutankhamun's tomb

Evaluation of the Expansive Esna Shale and Its Role in the Deterioration of Heritage Buildings at West Bank of Luxor

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