Abydos Temple is one of Egypt’s most significant sites which has a long history that dates back t... more Abydos Temple is one of Egypt’s most significant sites which has a long history that dates back to the ancient monarchy and continued until the coming of Islam and also served as one of Egypt’s most significant ancient royal and high-ranking official burial sites. The main objective of this work was discovering more archaeological features buried underground such as ancient walls, monuments, and tombs. This objective was achieved using two near surface sophisticated geophysical techniques, namely ground magnetic survey and ground penetrating radar (GPR). This site was surveyed firstly using ground magnetic survey as reconnaissance stage and the locations which contain potential anomalies were resurveyed using GPR technique for determination the depth and the geometry of this potential targets. This site was divided into four regular grids and GPR model SIR-4000 equipment with 200 MHz central frequency antenna was used in this survey. The output of the magnetic survey is a total magn...
This study concerns with the petrophysical characteristics of the Lower Jurassic surface analog i... more This study concerns with the petrophysical characteristics of the Lower Jurassic surface analog in Gebel El-Maghara area (from base to top Mashaba, Rajabia, and Shusha formations), north Sinai, Egypt and implementation of the mineral components and diagenetic controls on reservoir characteristics. A full set of petrophysical measurements including porosity (∅He), permeability (k), grain and bulk densities (σg and σb, respectively), and true formation resistivity factor was applied. The Lower Jurassic sequence is subdivided into five hydraulic flow units (HFUs) that consist of three reservoir rock types (RRTs). These RRTs are composed of three microfacies association (MFAs). The RRT1 plug samples consist of the mostly clastic MFA1; they are porous, permeable, and have good reservoir quality that is using the flow zone indicator (FZI), and the reservoir quality index (RQI). The lowest reservoir quality is assigned to the RRT samples which are mostly composed tight carbonates. Based on...
Abstract Due to the increasing in the population density, the restriction of the agricultural are... more Abstract Due to the increasing in the population density, the restriction of the agricultural areas and the scarcity of building's lands and their highly costs in Egypt, especially in Sohag province which led the officials and decision-markers to search for alternatives in the desert places to solve this problems. Therefore, New Akhmim area was proposed as a new site for constructing a new city. The main aim of this research is to delineate the engineering characteristic of the soil, identify of the bedrock depth and determine the subsurface structures and lithology of the investigated site. Great effort should be done to determine the depth to competent layer (bedrock) within the proposed site and correlate the results with the available boreholes. Complementary geophysical tool was implemented for the engineering designs in order to ensure stability of building construction and evade the shocking effects of building collapse later. Thus, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was undertaken on the present site for monitoring these subsurface engineering issues. The field geometry was made up of eight profiles using Wenner configuration. The data of the 2D resistivity tomography along these profiles with smallest electrode separation of 5 m were interpreted using Res2dinv software. The subsurface is characterized by three different resistivity zones, which were interpreted as gravel intercalated with coarse sands at the top, sand beneath it and shale beneath the sand layer. The ERT results were in consistent with the results of ten engineering boreholes drilling in the study area. The presence of shale was correlated to the cause of chronic differential settlements of some engineering structures like slickensides due to drying and wetting within the area. No serious structural features were detected as faults, karstification phenomena or caving. So the area is valid for construction proposes.
Abydos Temple is one of Egypt’s most significant sites which has a long history that dates back t... more Abydos Temple is one of Egypt’s most significant sites which has a long history that dates back to the ancient monarchy and continued until the coming of Islam and also served as one of Egypt’s most significant ancient royal and high-ranking official burial sites. The main objective of this work was discovering more archaeological features buried underground such as ancient walls, monuments, and tombs. This objective was achieved using two near surface sophisticated geophysical techniques, namely ground magnetic survey and ground penetrating radar (GPR). This site was surveyed firstly using ground magnetic survey as reconnaissance stage and the locations which contain potential anomalies were resurveyed using GPR technique for determination the depth and the geometry of this potential targets. This site was divided into four regular grids and GPR model SIR-4000 equipment with 200 MHz central frequency antenna was used in this survey. The output of the magnetic survey is a total magn...
This study concerns with the petrophysical characteristics of the Lower Jurassic surface analog i... more This study concerns with the petrophysical characteristics of the Lower Jurassic surface analog in Gebel El-Maghara area (from base to top Mashaba, Rajabia, and Shusha formations), north Sinai, Egypt and implementation of the mineral components and diagenetic controls on reservoir characteristics. A full set of petrophysical measurements including porosity (∅He), permeability (k), grain and bulk densities (σg and σb, respectively), and true formation resistivity factor was applied. The Lower Jurassic sequence is subdivided into five hydraulic flow units (HFUs) that consist of three reservoir rock types (RRTs). These RRTs are composed of three microfacies association (MFAs). The RRT1 plug samples consist of the mostly clastic MFA1; they are porous, permeable, and have good reservoir quality that is using the flow zone indicator (FZI), and the reservoir quality index (RQI). The lowest reservoir quality is assigned to the RRT samples which are mostly composed tight carbonates. Based on...
Abstract Due to the increasing in the population density, the restriction of the agricultural are... more Abstract Due to the increasing in the population density, the restriction of the agricultural areas and the scarcity of building's lands and their highly costs in Egypt, especially in Sohag province which led the officials and decision-markers to search for alternatives in the desert places to solve this problems. Therefore, New Akhmim area was proposed as a new site for constructing a new city. The main aim of this research is to delineate the engineering characteristic of the soil, identify of the bedrock depth and determine the subsurface structures and lithology of the investigated site. Great effort should be done to determine the depth to competent layer (bedrock) within the proposed site and correlate the results with the available boreholes. Complementary geophysical tool was implemented for the engineering designs in order to ensure stability of building construction and evade the shocking effects of building collapse later. Thus, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was undertaken on the present site for monitoring these subsurface engineering issues. The field geometry was made up of eight profiles using Wenner configuration. The data of the 2D resistivity tomography along these profiles with smallest electrode separation of 5 m were interpreted using Res2dinv software. The subsurface is characterized by three different resistivity zones, which were interpreted as gravel intercalated with coarse sands at the top, sand beneath it and shale beneath the sand layer. The ERT results were in consistent with the results of ten engineering boreholes drilling in the study area. The presence of shale was correlated to the cause of chronic differential settlements of some engineering structures like slickensides due to drying and wetting within the area. No serious structural features were detected as faults, karstification phenomena or caving. So the area is valid for construction proposes.
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