الفهرس 
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Abstract
Water scarcity already affects every continent. Egypt is currently using more water
than its internal renewable resources, mainly based on Nile freshwater inflows. Water stress
in Egypt is expected to further increase in the future as a result of rapid population growth.
The studied area in west central Sinai aims to investigate the shallow and deep sections for
groundwater exploration. Gravity and magnetic data interpretation are used to delineate
subsurface structures and define the depth to the basement. The geoelectrical,
geomorphological, gravity, and magnetic data were integrated to achieve the purpose of the
current study. Hydrogeology and hydrochemistry were integrated to achieve the water type,
water origin and water quality.
the main purpose of gravity work is to emphasize the shallow and deep subsurface
geologic characteristics of the studied area. the major tectonic trends derived from the
regional and residual gravity maps are more or less similar, this situation suggests vertical up
lift movement rather than horizontal movement, then, this area is subjected to Thick-skinned
deformation rather than thin-skinned deformation. It is noticed that the depth to the basement
surface is ranged between less than one km and more than 5-7 km, as exhibited in the resulted
basement depth map and this map reflects several basement crests and basins with varying
sizes and trends. the same techniques were applied on the magnetic methods which is
completely confirmed with the gravity interpretations results.