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The Mineralogy of a Neolithic Terrace at Tura, Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. M. Shukri
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Professor M. Amer, Vice-Rector of the Farouk I University, kindly introduced the writer to the interesting Neolithic site at Maadi (1, 4, and 5) and to similar deposits situated further to the south at Tura. The following note records the minerals present in the southern formation, which proved to be derived from the same sources as those contributing material to the recent Nile deposits at its present bank east of Tura. The investigation showed also that the relative amounts of suspended matter carried by various tributaries of ancient rivers could be determined by examining the relative abundance of the heavy minerals along their courses.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , February 1945 , pp. 31 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1945

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