Integrating magnetic and stratigraphic data to delineate the subsurface features in and around new Galala City, Northern Galala Plateau, Egypt

Abstract

The Egyptian Government is developing a new city, Galala, above the Northern Galala Plateau, western side of Gulf of Suez between Ain Sukhna and Zafarana. The aim of the study is integrating magnetic and stratigraphic data to delineate the subsurface features beneath the New Galala City, in order to avoid the possible geological hazards. The stratigraphic succession in the study area consists of Precambrian basement complex overlain unconformably by Phanerozoic sequence. The Phanerozoic sequence composed mainly of siliciclastic-dominated rocks superimposed by carbonate-dominated rocks. The carbonatedominated rocks cover most surface area, whilst the siliciclastic-dominated rocks exposed along eastern and southern foot slope of the Northern Galala Plateau. The observed palaeokarst surfaces, fissures, caves, sink-holes and fault zones within carbonate rocks may cause some geological hazards in the study area. The total intensity aeromagnetic map was subjected to un-prescribed structural index 3D-Euler Deconvolution (ED), the tilt angle derivative (TDR) and the power spectrum in order to estimate both trends and source depths.

Engineering Geomorphology and Geotechnical Assessment of Wadi Abu Daraj, El-Galala Plateau Using Geomatics Applications

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“…7), and is being cut through by a network of internal roads. It consists of Thebes and AbuRimth Formation, which consists of chalky limestone and chert nodules (Abdelazeem, et al, 2019); and Mokattam Formation, which consists of limestone, dolomitic limestone and dolomite. It is considered the most widespread formation, and is characterized by the prevalence of processes of Recrystallization, Cemenation and Micritization, particularly along the main fault range (Abdelazeem, et al, 2019).…”

“…16) and (Appendix.1 and 2). (1) The profile number is placed on the right, and the other side represents the left of the road (Fig. 13).…”

“…Despite this fact, a very small-sized basins were found to have a high lag time such as W.B.3 basin, which has an area of 0.48 km 2 and lag time of 0.29 hours due to the increase in its slope degree (3.87). (1) The rainstorm covers basins whose areas are less than 200 km 2 (Youssef, 1999).…”

Hybrid Computational Intelligence Algorithm for Autonomous Handling of COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency in Smart Cities

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