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REGIONAL GEOLOGY OF WEST EDFU AREAOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
West Edfu Area is located in the western Desert and stretches along the western blank of Lake Nasser and Nile River, which is bounded from the West by Sin El kaddab plateau covering an area of approximately 9800 km2. The area is bounded from the west by bahariya oasis and from the south by Aswan Lake and from the East by Nile River and Edfu city.
The study area has been covered recently by systematic aerial magnetic and multi-channel gamma-ray survey. This survey was flown by the Airborne Geophysics Department, Exploration Division, Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA) of Egypt in October, 2011. This mission has accomplished using the NMA geophysical survey twin-engine Beechcraft king Air B200SE (Turbine engines) equipped with a multi - sensor airborne geophysical survey system. This comprises a high resolution Cesium vapor magnetometer. Communication instruments installed on the aircraft are Collins products. NMA Aircraft has the Egyptian registration No. SU-BNJ.
The airborne magnetic data obtained from the survey over West Edfu area has been analyzed by various techniques. These techniques include the reduction to the north magnetic pole (RTP), isolation of the regional and residual magnetic components using band pass filtering technique, calculation of the second vertical derivative, magnetic depth calculation and 2D and 3D magnetic modeling technique. The integration of all these techniques has been resulted in the construction of the interpreted basement tectonic map for the present study area.The encountered deep-seated Precambrian basement structures aregenerally trending NW–SE and NE–SW directions. The depth-to-the-basement estimates were reliablyvaried between 130 and 4750 m, from the existing averaged ground surface, and correlated well with theavailable drilled stratigraphic-control wells. Additionally, the results suggested that the sedimentary coveris tectonically affected by such deep-seated basement structures with a set of tectonic faults extending fromthe basement upwards through the sedimentary cover. These faulted sedimentary blocks may constitutepotential structural traps for the hydrocarbon accumulation.