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Box 150458, P.C.13115, Zarqa, Jordan Tel.: 00962 53903333/ Ext. 4235 Fax: 00962 53826823 E-mail: [email protected] JJEES Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences PAGES PAPERS 64 - 74 Mineralogical and Geochemical Studies on Some Early Miocene Sediments of Southwestern Sinai, Egypt Nabil Abd El-Hafez, Ahmed Mousa, Tarek El-Hariri, Mohamed Abd El-Moghny, Hossam Sharaka 75 - 84 Assessment of Metal Pollution of the Surface Sediments along the Wadi Al Rayyan area, Jordan Ibrahim Bany Yaseen and Zayed Al-Hawari 85 - 91 Status and Prediction of Nitrogen Oxides in the Air of Shiraz City, Iran Masoud Masoudi, Fatemeh Ordibeheshti, Neda Poor 92 - 96 Morphometric Analysis of Lake Ruma, Song, Adamawa State in Northeastern Nigeria Yonnana Ezekiel, Apollos Thandime, James Thomas 97 - 103 Estimation of Global Solar Radiation, Sunshine Hour Distribution and Clearness Index in Three Geopolitical Regions of Southern Nigeria Adeniji Nathaniel, Akinpelu Jacob, Adeniji Joshua, Adeola Solomom 104 - 112 Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Sediments of the Lower Litani River Basin, Lebanon Nada Nehme, Chaden Haidar, Walaa Diab, Khaled Tarawneh, Frédéric Villieras 113 - 117 Road Rehabilitation Using Mobile Mapping System and Building Information Model Omar Al-Bayari 118 - 126 Development of Irrigation Water Quality Index for Wadi Araba Basin, Southern Jordan Ali El-Naqa and Amani Abu Al Adas JJEES (2019) 10 (2): 64-74 JJEES ISSN 1995-6681 Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences Mineralogical and Geochemical Studies on Some Early Miocene Sediments of Southwestern Sinai, Egypt Nabil Abd El-Hafez1, Ahmed Mousa2, Tarek El-Hariri2, Mohamed Abd El-Moghny1, Hossam Sharaka3 1Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Geology Department, Cairo, Egypt. 2Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Exploration Department, Nasr City, Egypt. 3Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt. Received 8 November 2018, Accepted 12 January 2019 Abstract The present work provides a comparison and a contrast of the lithostratigraphy, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the early Miocene rocks exposed in El-Markha and Wadi Gharandal sections (Nukhul and Rudeis formations) at Southwest Sinai. Miocene succession of Southwest Sinai is classified from base to top into: Nukhul and Rudies formations. Rudies Formation unconformably overlies Nukhul Formation and unconformably underlies Kareem Formation. The Early Miocene sequence revealed the presence of calcite as the dominate minerals in the nonclastic rocks. Quartz is the main mineral in the clastic rocks, while goethite is most important minerals in the iron-rich sand, whereas halite is foremost minerals in evaporate samples. Hematite, kaolinite, halite and gypsum are the secondary minerals constituting the studied rock units with varying amount. The foremost clay minerals present in Nukhul Formation are montmorillonite and kaolinite. In Rudeis Formation, the main clay minerals is montmorillonite. Geochemically, the studied sections are characterized by higher percentage of SiO2 and Fe2O3 in iron-rich sand. SiO2, Fe2O3 and Al2O3 gathering to form the ferruginous and glauconitic sandstone. The high content of SiO2, Na2O, Cl, CaO and So3 as main elements of compound together and forming gypsum and evaporitic sandstone. On the other hand, the high content of CaO and MgO gathering to give limestone, dolomitic limestone and dolomite. So, through the light on the geochemical conditions the two different formations are deposited. © 2019 Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences. All rights reserved Keywords: Mineralogy, Geochemical Studies, Early Miocene, Sinai and Egypt. 1. Introduction evaporitic intercalations). The microscopic examination The Miocene rocks in the Gulf of Suez areas have been revealed different sandstone microfacies types such as: studied by several authors (Said and El Heiny, 1967; El-Bakry quartz arenite, calcareous quartz arenite, ferruginous quartz et al., 2010; Hewaidy et al., 2012; Al-Husseiny, 2012; Abd arenite, evaporitic quartz arenite, glaucontic quartz arenite El-Hafez et al., 2015). The Miocene sediments in the study and ferruginous evaporitic quartz arenite. The carbonate areas are located between latitudes 29° 14’ and 29° 18’ N and microfacies types in the studied formations include sandy longitudes 32° ‘ 55’ and 33° 00’ in Wadi Gharandal section. El micrite, biosparite, foraminiferal biomicrite, dolo-biomicrite, Markha section is located between latitudes 29° 00’ and 29° dolosparite, dolostone, pelsparite, oo-biosparite and evaporitic 03’ N and longitudes 33° 10’ and 33° 16’ (Fig. 1). dolomicrite (Abd El-Hafez et al., 2015). The present work aims The Miocene sediments developed on both rifts and in the to shed more light at the lithostratigraphical, mineralogical