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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Geology of Egypt</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hume, W. F. (William Fraser)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1867-1949</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lyons, H. G. (Henry George)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1864-1944</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Greaves, Richard Henry.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Egypt</namePart>
    <namePart>Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah.</namePart>
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  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Cairo</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Government Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1925-</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="start">1925</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="end">9999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>v. plates (part fold.; incl. maps, diagrs.) tables (part fold.) 27 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>I. The surface features of Egypt, their determining causes and relation to geological structure.--II. The fundamental Pre-Cambrian rocks of Egypt and the Sudan; their distribution age and character.--pt. 1. The metamorphic rocks, with preface by H. H. Thomas.--pt. 2. The later plutonic and minor intrusive rocks, with a special chapter dealing with dynamical geology (cataract structure and contact metamorphism) and the age of the Pre-Cambrian rocks in Egypt.--pt. 3. The minerals of economic value associated with the intrusive Pre-Cambrian igneous rocks and ancient sediments and methods suggested for the dating of historical and geological times. Written in collaboration with R. H. Greaves.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by W. F. Hume; with preface by Col. H. G. Lyons; and a bibliography.</note>
  <note>At head of title: Ministry of finance, Egypt.  Survey of Egypt.</note>
  <note>Folded maps in pocket.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: v. 1, p. 221-288.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
    <topic>Bibliography</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Petrology</topic>
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">556.2</classification>
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