Photo Gallery

Hydro- and Subvolcanic Structures in the Region of the Gilf Kebir (Egypt/Libya)

Clayton Craters
  Large Crater            
      Crater Inside Crater Inside      
               
          Crater Bottom    
   Dykes Dyke Dyke White Trachyte White Trachyte White Trachyte  White Trachyte
 White Trachyte            
    Basaltic Plug on uplifted Basement (22°18'01''N / 25°24'15''E) Uplifted Basement

 

Crater Field GKCF

GKCF-13 GKCF-13 GKCF-13 GKCF-13 GKCF-13 GKCF-13    
GFCK-13/Southern Side GFCK-13/Rim GFCK-13/Rim GKCF-13/Layers GKCF-13/Rim GKCF-13/Breccia GKCF-13/Breccia GKCF-13/Breccia
 Small crater GKCF GKCF   Craters Erected layers Erected Layers Erected layers
GKCF-01/Rim GKCK-01/Rim GKCF-01 GKCF-01/Rim GKCF-01 GKCF-01/Rim GKCF-01/Rim GKCF-01
GKCF-01/Breccia GKCF-01/Breccia  GKCF-01/05/Breccia Breccia Grained Sandstone Breccia GKCF-02 GKCF-02
   
Small Crater Rim of the small Crater     Unknown Crater
 Small Crater Tilted Layers Dyke Dyke   Hydrovolcanic Structure Erected Layers
Field of fused Sandstone Debris Fused Sandstone Fused Sandstone "Beacon Hill" "Beacon Hill" Basalt Hill Basalt Hill Basalt Hill
   
 Crater field nearby Jasper Mountain    

 

GKCF: Gilf Kebir eastern side

           

Many volcanic fissures between Wadi Sura and Aqaba

 

        

 

 

GKCF: Great Sand Sea

Crater "El-Baz" Sakhret-al-Amud Great Sand Sea east side "Qaret el Hanash" with fused sandstone;  near Silica

 

GKCF: "Jasper Mountain"

Jasper Crater Jasper Mountain   Blood Jasper Jasper Quartz, Chalcedony

 
Photos by Ursula Steiner, Switzerland Jasper breccia  

 

GKCF: "Regenfeld"

 
Hydrovolcanic Pipes Hydrovolcanic Pipes Hydrovolcanic Pipes Hydrovolcanic Pipes Hydrovolcanic Pipes Destroyed pipes Hydrovolcanic Structure  
           
            Uplifted Layers

 

GKCF: Kemal-el-Din Plateau

Large Crater on plateau Crater Wadi Mashi Basalt Wadi Mashi Quartz Basalt Wadi Mashi Basalt Wadi Mashi Basalt Wadi Akhdar Basalt Wadi Akhdar
         
Another large basaltic plug in the Wadi Akhdar          

 

Crater "White Spot" and further structures (Uweinat)

Crater "White Spot" Crater "White Spot" Basalt/"White Spot"  Sandstone Plug/Plateau Basalt columns (or splitted Sandstone) on the Plateau
On floor of Karkur Talh: A variety of coarse-crystalline Trachyte Volcanic tracks in the Karkur Talh area Dyke/Foreland Dyke/Foreland
             
Quartz Cristalls/Plateau              

 

Craters Arkenu (Libya)

        Breccia on rims  Trachyte?
   
 Breccia Two craters 40 km WNW SW of Arkenu craters Crater southeast of Arkenu craters Erected layers Dyke NW of Jabal Arkenu

 

Crater Oasis (Libya)

    Centre   Central uplift     Dyke
 
 Plugs wih sandstone on top; 100 km WNW Northern plugs   50 km SW; dyke structures Large dyke south of Kufra Dyke/Babain Plug/Babain

 

Crater B.P. (Libya)

  Panorama     Central uplift      
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