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Photo Gallery
Hydro- and Subvolcanic Structures in the
Region of Gilf Kebir (Egypt/Libya)
Update: 16.12.2019
Clayton Craters
"Peter & Paul" area
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"Peter & Paul" |
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Granite in
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Trachyte Plug |
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Gilf Kebir Crater Field GKCF
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GKCF-13 |
GKCF-13 (7) |
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GFCK-13/Southern side |
GFCK-13/Rim (2) |
GKCF-13/Layers |
GKCF-13/Breccia (4) |
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Crater field GKCF (3) |
Craters |
Erected layers (3) |
GKCF-07/Rim |
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GKCF-01 |
GKCK-01/Rim (2) |
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GKCF-01/ Rim (3) |
GKCF-01/Rim (2) |
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GKCF-01/Rim |
GKCF-01/Breccia |
GKCF-01/Breccia basement |
GKCF-01/Breccia |
GKCF-01 & GKCF-05/Breccia |
GKCF-13/Solutions |
GKCF-01/Changed arenite |
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Small Crater |
GKCF-02 (2) |
GKCF-06 ? |
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"Red Hill" with uplifted red layers
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Rim of a small Crater (5) |
Small Crater (2) |
Tilted Layers |
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Erected Layers (2) |
Basalt Hills |
"Red Hill" |
Uplifted Breccias (3) |
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Fused Sandstone (4) |
Breccia (2) |
Large Crater |
Basalt Hill |
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Basalt plug into a Crater |
Enormous Basalt Hill (2) |
"Beacon Hill" (2) |
Basalt Hill (3) |
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Crater Field nearby Jasper Mountain
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Hydrovolcanic Structure |
Hydrovolcanic Pipes |
GKCF: Northern Gilf Kebir Plateau
& western and northern foreland
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Many volcanic Fissures with erected layers
between Wadi Sura and Aqaba (6)
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Hydrovolcano (Um Ras)
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Ring intrusion
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Basalt hill on top of plateau |
"Kebira" structure:
Volcanic plugs
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GKCF: Southern Gilf Kebir Plateau (Kemal-el-Din Plateau)
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Large Crater on plateau |
Depression outside of Wadi Mashi with Basalt
debris and Quartz |
Basalt Locations (Loc) |
Basalt Wadi Mashi (Loc-3) |
Trachyte Wadi Wassa |
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Large basaltic Plug in the Wadi Akhdar (Loc-2) |
Another striking Plug in the Wadi Akhdar (Loc-1) |
Basalt Wadi Dayiq (Loc-4) |
Crater inside with Basalt (Loc-5) |
Twin peak Basalt (Loc-6) |
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Trachyte or Basalt in a northern Wadi (Loc-7) |
Trachyte in a Wadi on east side of Gilf
Kebir (Loc-8) |
Trachyte in the Wadi Mashi (Loc-9) |
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Trachyte with included tuber of Iron oxide;
Wadi Mashi |
Small Ring-dyke, Mouth of Wadi Mashi |
Trachyte Bubble, Wadi Dayiq |
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Trachyte (Loc-10) |
Trachyte in the Wadi Akhdar (Loc-12) |
Basalt Wadi Akhdar (Loc-11) |
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GKCF: Great Sand Sea
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Crater "El-Baz" (3)
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Sakhret-al-Amud (3)
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Great Sand Sea |
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"Qaret el Hanash" near Silica
field: Igneous breccia contain glass, basement debris, jasper and large
dark diamonds
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Carbon+diamonds in sediment
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Magnetite-rich Silica boulder |
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Breccia-bearing sandstone south of Siwa Oasis |
Crater-shaped structures SE of Siwa Oasis |
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GKCF: "Jasper Mountain"
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Jasper Crater
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Jasper Mountain
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Blood Jasper
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Jasper
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Quartz, Chalcedony
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Photos by Ursula Steiner, Switzerland
(6)
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Gilf Kebir, Wadi Hamra
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GKCF: "Regenfeld"
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Hydrovolcanic Pipes (6) |
Destroyed Pipes |
Hydrovolcanic Structure |
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Uplifted Layers |
Crater "White Spot" and further structures (Jebel Uweinat)
Craters Arkenu (Libya)
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Breccias (2) |
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Brecciated crater rim (2) |
Arkenu-1: Yellow Jasper in silicified sandstone
- formed by hydrovolcanic solutions (3) |
Trachyte? (3) |
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Two Craters 40 km WNW (2) |
SW of Arkenu Craters |
Crater southeast of Arkenu Craters (2) |
Erected Layers |
Dyke NW of Jabal Arkenu |
Crater Oasis (Libya)
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Centre |
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Central
Uplift |
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Plugs with Sandstone on top; 100 km
WNW (2) |
Northern
Plugs |
Dyke |
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SW; Dyke Structures |
Large Dyke south of Kufra |
Dyke/Babain |
Plug/Babain |
Crater B.P. (Libya)
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Central
Uplift |
Panorama |
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Ten photos by "Wuestenschiff.de" |
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