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The most inclusive results up to now of found plant
remains from field works 1977 - 1984 in the region
of Djebel Uweinat and Gilf Kebir were published by KLITZSCH and LEJAL-NICOL
in two articles.
KLITZSCH,
E. & LEJAL-NICOL, A. (1984) : Flora and fauna from strata in southern Egypt
and northern Sudan
(Nubia and surrounding areas). Berliner geowiss. Abh., (A) 50, p. 47-79.
LEJAL-NICOL, A. (1987) : Flores nouvelles du Paleozoique et du Mesozoique
D’Egypte et du Soudan septentrional.
Berliner geowiss. Abh., (A) 75.1, p. 151-248.
The plant remains are described, determineted and
photos were published.
The predominant quantity of the finds are Lycophyta (Lepidodendron etc.) of
Lower Carboniferous age
and they were found in the Wadi Abdel Malik area (northern part of the
Gilf Kebir = Abdel-Malik Plateau)
and in the Karkur Murr (Djebel Uweinat). They were all found in a younger
overlay of Carboniferous strata,
which came transgressive from the Kufra Basin.
Some plant remains are evidently younger as the Carboniferous age. They were
found at the southern
Gilf Kebir (Kemal-el-Din Plateau) respectively in the western foreland of the
Aqaba passage and in the Wadi Wassa.
These deposits are classified as Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous age consequently.
That could be a mistake
(see remarks below).
KLITZSCH,
E. & WYCISK, P. (1987) : Geology of the sedimentary basins of northern
Sudan and bordering areas.
Berliner geowiss. Abh., (A) 75.1, p. 97-136.
presented sedimentological and structural -
geological developments for this area are described inclusively.
The works are very deservingly. Unfortunately statements to positions of the
plant remains in the terrain and
in the profiles are inaccurate or missing completely. The determination, that
the deposits of the whole southern
Gilf Kebir plateau are Upper Jurassic strata or Lower Cretaceous strata, is
very improbable.
It is for everybody not easy to organize the publications, therefore the plant
remains are reproduced here,
in the anticipated agreement with the authors Dr. Annie Lejal-Nicol, France,
and Prof. Dr. Eberhard Klitzsch,
Germany.
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Up to now known locations with Carboniferous
layers and plant remains
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