GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE AND SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE NfD COMPOSITION OF 'rHE SEDIMENTS OF EL-AIAMEIN LAGOONS ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF TUE MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL ZONE OF EGYPT.

GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE AND SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE NfD
COMPOSITION OF ‘rHE SEDIMENTS OF EL-AIAMEIN LAGOONS
ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF TUE MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL
ZONE OF EGYPT.
M.E. HILMY, Y.A. ALI AND A.F.OSMAN
Department of Geology, Ain Shams University, cairo, Egypt.
ABSTRACT
The coastal lagoons along the North African coast of Egypt
constitute some of the most important environments with regards to
the aquatic resources and sabkha sediments. Given the importance of
the coastal lagoon environments as national resources and also
their scientific values as a natural heritage which should be
carefully preserved, our research team started a program, for study
of the geology, mineralogy and geochemistry of El-Alamein lagoons
along the western side of the Mediterranean coastal zone of Egypt.
The present issue concerns with the geologic occurrence,
sedimentary sequence and composition of the sediments of such
lagoons. The area of study lies in the Hedite.”ranean coastal zone
of Egypt, at a distance of about 110 km west of Alexandria and the
Nile Delta. The area extends for about 20 km both east and west
El-Alamein village. The lagoons lie in a depression between modern
and Pleistocene beach ridge “the first depression” and consist of
eight lagoons, each lagoon is characterized by topographical
features including shape, size, relief and nature of the sediments.