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Egypt 1 General slickenside lineation. The core comprises granitic gneisses conformably overlain by a heterogeneous Area: 997,739 km² and isoclinically folded mylonitic material, which Population: 65,700,000 (Estimate 2001) predates the doming event. This grades up into low-grade ophiolitic rocks. The area lies in the 2 Summary of Geology foreland fold and thrust belt of a continental margin origin. Ophiolites outcrop along the thrust between The oldest rocks in Egypt occur as isolated Archean to the Meatiq infrastructure and the imbricated Abu Proterozoic inliers in the Western Desert, whereas the Ziran nappe. Calc-alkaline magmatism occurred Egyptian part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield along the along two upwards and is associated with gold coastal Red Sea region is made up of Neoproterozoic mineralization. The Abu Ziran Group comprises Pan-African rocks. Paleozoic sediments often mantle ophiolites overlain by metasediments, pyroclastics the basement rocks. After a sedimentary hiatus due and local intermediate volcanics with island arc to the Hercynian orogeny Cretaceous sediments are characteristics. The Hammamat Group includes well exposed in various parts of the country. The molasse-type clastics and the penecoeval Dokhan Cenozoic history is characterized by tran