2024
DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2024.1
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Geochronology of Phreatophytic Mounds on the Atmur El Kibiesh, Egypt: With Descriptions of Plants Collected During the Expedition to the Eastern Sahara, Egypt, and Sudan (Appendix I)

C Vance Haynes,
Loutfy Boulos,
Anthony B Muller

Abstract: In the hyperarid eastern Sahara, west of the Nile River in Egypt, areas with vegetated eolian mounds have attracted people and animals because of shallow groundwater that at times of high water tables may be reached by hand digging shallow wells. An eolian phreatophytic mound with a living arak bush (Silvadora persica L.) on top, one of three known from this region of SW Egypt, provided a stratigraphic record of its growth. The geochronology of the mounds aggradation and that of a nearby tarfa mound (Tamarix n… Show more

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