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Baharia Oasis

Chapter 18: INDEX.
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The report presents results of a detailed topographical and geological survey of a Libyan Desert oasis, including mapping procedures and traverses, descriptions of roads linking the oasis to the Nile and neighboring depressions, and measurements of elevations and water sources. It documents surface and subsurface geology—chalky and siliceous Eocene limestones, interbedded marls and sands, and fossil‑bearing beds with abundant nummulites—and interprets local stratigraphy and structural features such as synclines, escarpments and anticlines. Chapters describe settlement patterns, water‑supply observations and antiquities, and the text is supported by maps, sections and photographic plates that illustrate the field data and interpretations.

[64]Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band 20, 1885, pp. 110-160.

[65]Berichte der philologisch-historischen klasse der Konigl. Sachs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 1900, pp. 209-239.

[66]Belzoni, as remarked on p. 8. mistook this revetment-wall for that of a temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the builder’s stone-marks for the remains of a Greek inscription.

[67]Op. cit. p. 226.

[68]“Gesichtsurne aus der kleinen Oase”; Sitzungsber. der Berliner anthropol. Gesellschaft, 1876, pp. 171, 172 (with woodcut).

[69]The Survey observations give 28° 2′ 11″ N. as the latitude of Ain el Haiss, thus placing it about 3 kilometres further north. Jordan’s value, 28° 1′ 55″ substantially confirms this; the small difference is doubtless due to different points of observation being used.

[70]Op. cit. Farafra Oasis, etc., p. 12.

[71]Kharga Oasis, etc., p. 82.

[72]Op. cit. p. 149. Pl. XXXVIII.

[73]Op. cit. p. 193 and Pl. XXXVI, Fig. 2.


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