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This contribution is based on new observations of the relations between continental and marine deposits along the 800 km of northernmost coast of the Red Sea. One hundred U/Th dates of the marine units (coral reefs, molluscs, echinoids, gypsum) together with 20 site descriptions and age discussions enable an interpretation of sediment relations with palaeoclimatic and glacio-eustatic sea-level changes. Isotope stage 5e is studied in detail and shows high frequency changes, but the study also concerns the overall Early Pleistocene to Holocene evolution. Stability is a general attribute of this part of the eastern African coast with the exception of the southern Gulf of Suez. North of the Aqaba transform fault the Gulf appears to be still in the rifting stage.
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Plaziat, JC. et al. (1998). Quaternary marine and continental sedimentation in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Suez (Egyptian coast): influences of rift tectonics, climatic changes and sea-level fluctuations. In: Purser, B.H., Bosence, D.W.J. (eds) Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rift Basins Red Sea:- Gulf of Aden. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4930-3_29
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