Abstract
The Egyptian region of the Red Sea depression attained its present configuration primarily as a result of a series of epeirogenic movements. The area between Quseir, Safaga, and the southern part of Wadi Qena was subjected to a series of alternations between major faulting and regional uplift. Structurally, the basement complex of the Red Sea mountain range (west side of Red Sea) constitutes a major horst with a general Erythrean structural direction (northwest-southeast). East of the horst, toward the Red Sea coast, is a group of step faults, ranging in age from post-early Eocene to Pleistocene-Recent. These main faults were shoreline zones during periods of marine sedimentation. The whole area was subjected to successive uplifts, forming an anteclise whose axis parallel d the present Red Sea mountain range.
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