Gulf of Suez, Egypt

Conference · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA)

OSTI ID:5698277

Schuetz, K I ^[1]

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1. Conoco, Inc., Houston, TX (USA)

The Gulf of Suez is an intracratonic rift basin which originated in the early Miocene on the once-continuous Arabo-African plate. The Precambrian crystalline basement is overlain by a platform cover of Early Cambrian to Eocene age. There is no evidence of tectonic precursors to the Miocene breakup. Marine transgressions, for example during the Carboniferous and Cretaceous, followed wide embayments caused by long-wavelength oscillations trending northwest-southeast on the North African craton. This article discusses the geologic history of the Gulf.

• OSTI ID: 5698277
• Report Number(s): CONF-8809346-; CODEN: AABUD
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 72:8; Conference: Mediterranean Basins conference and exhibition, Nice (France), 25-28 Sep 1988; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GULF OF SUEZ
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