Potential biodegradation of crude petroleum oil by newly isolated halotolerant microbial strains from polluted Red Sea area

2016 ◽  
Vol 111 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 435-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousseria M.H. Shetaia ◽  
Wafaa A.A. El khalik ◽  
Tarek M. Mohamed ◽  
Laila A. Farahat ◽  
Ahmed ElMekawy
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Microbial Strains ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Petroleum Oil

scholarly journals Geomorphological hazard analysis along the Egyptian Red Sea coast between Safaga and Quseir

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Youssef ◽  
B. Pradhan ◽  
A. F. D. Gaber ◽  
M. F. Buchroithner
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Hazard Mapping ◽  
Hazard Maps ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Vulnerability Maps ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Sea Area

Abstract. Geomophological hazard assessment is an important component of natural hazard risk assessment. This paper presents GIS-based geomorphological hazard mapping in the Red Sea area between Safaga and Quseir, Egypt. This includes the integration of published geological, geomorphological, and other data into GIS, and generation of new map products, combining governmental concerns and legal restrictions. Detailed geomorphological hazard maps for flooding zones and earth movement potential, especially along the roads and railways, have been prepared. Further the paper illustrates the application of vulnerability maps dealing with the effect of hazard on urban areas, tourist villages, industrial facilities, quarries, and road networks. These maps can help to initiate appropriate measures to mitigate the probable hazards in the area.

scholarly journals Transition from continental rifting to oceanic spreading in the northern Red Sea area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami El Khrepy ◽  
Ivan Koulakov ◽  
Nassir Al-Arifi ◽  
Mamdouh S. Alajmi ◽  
Ayman N. Qadrouh
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Continental Rifting ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Lower Velocity ◽  
Velocity Anomaly ◽  
Oceanic Spreading ◽  
Lithospheric Extension ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Northern Red Sea

<p><strong>Lithosphere extension, which plays an essential role in plate tectonics, occurs both in continents (as rift systems) and oceans (spreading along mid-oceanic ridges). The northern Red Sea area is a unique natural geodynamic laboratory, where the ongoing transition from continental rifting to oceanic spreading can be observed. Here, we analyze travel time data from a merged catalogue provided by the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian seismic networks to build a three-dimensional model of seismic velocities in the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the northern Red Sea and surroundings. The derived structures clearly reveal a high-velocity anomaly coinciding with the Red Sea basin and a narrow low-velocity anomaly centered along the rift axis. We interpret these structures as a transition of lithospheric extension from continental rifting to oceanic spreading. The transitional lithosphere is manifested by a dominantly positive seismic anomaly indicating the presence of a 50–70-km-thick and 200–300-km-wide cold lithosphere. Along the forming oceanic ridge axis, an elongated low-velocity anomaly marks a narrow localized nascent spreading zone that disrupts the transitional lithosphere. Along the eastern margins of the Red Sea, the lithosphere is disturbed by the lower-velocity anomalies coinciding with areas of basaltic magmatism.</strong></p>

A discussion on the structure and evolution of the Red Sea and the nature of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Ethiopia rift junction - Short discussion contributions

1970 ◽  
Vol 267 (1181) ◽  
pp. 413-414 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Gulf Of Aden ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Northern Red Sea

H. M. E. Schürmann ( The Hague ). I would like to remark that epeirogenetic movements in the Precambrian of the Gulf of Suez and the northern Red Sea area have been proven. They are of Precambrian age as they have been observed underneath the Hammamat (youngest Precambrian) transgression. In Palaeozoic times several marine ingressions took place and similar ingressions occurred in Permian, Jurassic and Cretaceous times, indicating continued subsidence. The big clysmic taphrogeny took place in young Tertiary times.

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