Architecture of a carbonate platform-to-basin trasition on a structural high (Campanian-early Eocene, Eastern Dessert, Egypt) - classical and modelling approaches combined.

Abstract

Thirty Campanian to Early Eocene sections from the carbonate platform of the Galala Mountains, Eastern Desert (Egypt) and the adjacent transitional and basinal settings farther south have been conducted during two campaigns in 1997 and 1998. Approximately 2000 m of section have been measured with a total number of 928 samples (595 soft samples for obtaining washed residues and 333 limestones for thin-section preparation). Microfossil (planktonic foraminifers and calcareous nannoplankton) and microfacies data together with detailed field observations form the basis of this thesis. The main chapters (chapters 2-6) have been or will be published separately.