Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Desert ◽  
Water Solutions ◽  
Dakhla Oasis

Benthic foraminiferal response to relative sea-level changes in the Maastrichtian–Danian succession at the Dakhla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt

2016 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHERIF FAROUK ◽  
SREEPAT JAIN
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Desert ◽  
Level Curve ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
Benthic Environment ◽  
Oxygen Conditions ◽  
Early Paleocene ◽  
Dakhla Oasis ◽  
Regional Tectonics

AbstractThe Maastrichtian–Danian benthic foraminiferal diversity and assemblages through sequence stratigraphy were studied at Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Benthic foraminifera numbers (BFN), high-flux species and characteristic benthic foraminiferal species and genera distribution are also incorporated to assess palaeobathymetry, palaeoenvironment and palaeoproductivity. All these proxies are then taken together to construct a sea-level curve and interpreted in terms of regional tectonics, climate and eustasy. Data suggest a remarkably highly equitable benthic environment deposited in a brackish littoral and/or marsh setting with moderate (?) to low oxygen conditions and reduced salinity (oligotrophic), possibly due to increased precipitation and terrestrial runoff. The interrupted dominance of calcareous forms and high-organic-flux species suggests occasional marine incursions and high palaeoproductivity, due to local upwelling. The inferred sea-level curve replicates the global eustatic curve and suggests that the curve is more influenced by the prevailing climate and global eustasy rather than by regional tectonics. The post-Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary displays improvement in the environment in terms of diversity and number of species and specimens, with a marked reduction in the abundance of high-organic-flux species during early Paleocene (Danian) time, indicating a shift from a more mesotrophic open marine environment to much reduced oligotrophic conditions.

Subsurface tectonic pattern and basement topography as interpreted from aeromagnetic data to the south of El-Dakhla Oasis, western desert, Egypt

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2165-2178 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Bakheit ◽  
G. Z. Abdel Aal ◽  
A. E. El-Haddad ◽  
M. A. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Western Desert ◽  
Aeromagnetic Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Dakhla Oasis ◽  
Tectonic Pattern

scholarly journals From Powerlessness to Control: Psychosis, Spirit Possession and Recovery in the Western Desert of Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
M. A. Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Western Desert ◽  
Control Factors ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Dakhla Oasis ◽  
The Subject

This article explores an aspect of the cultural modulation of recovery in psychosis. It begins with the idea that recovery hinges on the ability of subjects to relate to their distressing experiences in ways that expand rather than diminish agency.  Based on fieldwork in the Dakhla oasis of Egypt and subsequent analysis, it is argued that interpretations of psychosis as spirit possession offer a broader range of intentionality than biomedical interpretations and therefore broader possibilities of relating to psychotic states. Modes of relating to spirits may take active or passive forms, the former consistent with the recovery goal of symptom control. Factors constitutive of the active, agency-expanding mode of relating include: the nature of spirits; the values and beliefs of the subject; the broader cultural/religious discourses which may make it either more or less likely for the subject to achieve the desired state of control over symptoms.

scholarly journals GEOTECHNICAL FACTORS GOVERNING SHEAR STRENGTH OF QUSEIR SHALE IN DAKHLA OASIS, WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
El-Sayed Sedek Abu Seif ◽  
El-Sharif M. Abd Al-Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Western Desert ◽  
Dakhla Oasis

Soil Conditions of Dakhla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz B. A. Belal ◽  
El-Sayed S. Mohamed ◽  
Mostafa A. Abdellatif ◽  
Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman
Keyword(s):  
Western Desert ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Dakhla Oasis
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