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Abstract The Sinai Peninsula covers an area of about 60,000 km2 , bordered from the North by the Mediterranean Sea and from the South by the Red Sea. At Ras Mohammed, the southern-most tip of Sinai, the Red Sea bifurcates into two embayments: the Gulf of Suez in the West and the Gulf of Aqaba in the East. From the geological point of view, the Sinai Peninsula is covered by various formations ranging from the Pre-Cambrian to the Recent. The Pre- Cambrian Basement Complex consists mainly of metamorphic and igneous rocks and is well exposed in the southern part of Sinai. The Basement Complex is covered with Paleozoic and younger sedimentary formations that extend and occupy the northern part of the Peninsula. Extensive drainage lines cover most of Sinai (Rg. 1). In the West drainage systems originate from the relatively high sedimentary plateaux close to the Gulf of Suez and drain mainly westwards towards the Gulf of Suez and Suez Canal zone. In southern Sinai the drainage lines start from Pre-Cambrian Basement Complex mountainous area and drain towards the EI-Qaa plain and eventually towards the Gulf of Suez and towards the Gulf of Aqaba. |