Geological Studies on the Sakkara Area, Egypt

Western Section of the ‘Dry Moat’ Channel Surrounding Step Pyramid Complex in Saqqara in the Light of Ground‐penetrating Radar Prospection

“…The Upper Eocene bedrock is hard and compact, light‐creamy to brownish sandy‐pelitic limestones interbedded with soft and poorly compact marly limestone. The complex represents the upper calcareous beds of the Saqqara Member of the Maadi Formation that is about 22 m thick (Youssef et al ., ; Squyres et al ., ; Said, ; Klemm and Klemm, , ; Welc et al ., ; Welc and Trzciński, ).…”

Deterioration of rock tombs saqqara area Egypt

“…The rocks of the mother rock are too weak to resist the interaction between exogenic (climate) and the endogenic (related to the nature of the rock types) conditions since their construction, thousands years ago.The durability of the mother rocks is mainly conditioned by their clay content and their porosity INTRODUCTION Saqqara area as known is a plateau formed mainly of well-stratified yellowish, argillaceous limestone, marl and calcareous claystones, with higher content of gypsum veinlets, and in part highly fractured with some cavities. They are related to lower part of the Maadi Formation, early Late Eocene (1) . The plateau shows a cover of Quaternary gravel, sand and conglomerate of varying thickness.…”

Geoarchaeological and Environmental Work at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, Egypt

“…The lo ca tion of the fos sil, at the base of a sand stone bed, ac cords with re cent find ings at Wadi el-Hitan (Pe ters et al, 2009) It is hoped that it will be fully in ves ti gated by a palaeontologist dur ing 2013. It is be lieved that no ver te brate fos sils have hith erto been recorded in the Maadi for ma tion at Saqqara, as these rocks have pre vi ously been re corded as be ing de void of fos sils (Youssef et al, 1984).…”

“…The marl beds con tain many late diagenetic gyp sum veins (Pe ters et al, 2009). The Sakkara mem ber is over lain on the East side of the pla teau by the early Pleis to cene Idfu Grav els (Youssef et al, 1984;Said 1981). The dog cat a comb it self com prises an ax ial cor ri dor ap prox i mately 173 m long from which open, on ei ther side, a se ries of shorter tun nels the lon gest of which is about 65 m. It is into these tun nels that the mum mified an i mals were placed.…”

“…The an i mal cat a combs are cut into the up per cal car e ous beds of the Sakkara mem ber of the Lower Eocene Maadi forma tion (Youssef et al, 1984), which at this lo cal ity dip slightly to the West. This mem ber forms the bulk of the Saqqara Abu Sir pla teau, and con sists of al ter nat ing light yellow, hard lime stones and softer yel low marls (Fig.…”