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yem section, Kharga Oasis. This author assigned the Esna Shale to the Danian and the overlying nummulitic limestone to the Montian. SAID (196OJ recorded fourteen species of planktonic foraminifera from the Esna Shale and the overlying Thebes formation of Gebel Gurnah section at Thebes(on the western bank of the Nile, facing Luxor). This author concluded that the Esna Shale (Upper T

5sna Shale) is Landenian in age, while the Thebes formation is Ypresian. SAID & KERDANY (196I) described the micropaleontology of the Parafra Oasis, Western Desert. They concluded that the Esna Shale is Landenian in age and the Parafra limestone in Ypresian. SAID & SABRY (1964) studied the planktonic foraminifera of Gebel Aweina,near Esna, Nile Valley. They came to the conclusion, that the lower Esna Shale "Dakhla Shale" is Maestrichtian in its lower part and Danian in its upper part.The overlying Chalk and the upper part of the Esna Shale is Landenian

,and the overlying Thebes formation is Ypresian. EL NAGGAR (1966) described the planktonic foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary succession in the Esna - Idfu region Nile Valley. This author divided the Esna Group into a lower "Sharawna Shale" and an upper "Owei na Shale". Purther EL NAGGAR (1966) divided the "Sharawna Shale" into lower, middle and upper Sharawna Shale and the "Oweina Shale" into lower, middle and upper Oweina Shale. He assigned the Sharawna Shale to the Maestrichtian; the lower Oweina Shale to the Danian; the middle Oweina Shale to the Heersian and the upper Oweina Shale Pig. 1. Geological map of the Nile Valley from Aswuan to Qena showing the location of Taramsa section, 1. ábra. A Nilus-völgy földtani térképe Asszuán és Qena között a Taramsa-szelvény helyének feltüntetésével.