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The Study Area Is Geographically Situated Between Nile Delta And North Sinai Essay

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Study area is geographically located between 32° 32´ 38 ' ' - 33° 21´ 09 ' ' E and 30° 51´ 38 ' ' - 31° 14´ 39 ' ' N, in the northwestern of Egypt. The northern Sinai coast is located within the rainy belt of Egypt; while the aridity increases generally to the south (El-Ghazawi, 1989). Rainfall is scarce and varies from place to place and increases in the northeastern direction, ranging from about 30 mm/year in the southwest at Ismailia to about 300 mm/year in the northeast at Rafah. The annual rainfall in northwest Sinai varies between 36 to 54.8 mm/year and the total quantity of rainfall generally increases northward (El-Sheikh, 2008). The area is considered one of the horizontal expansions in the Sinai Peninsula which aims at establishing a link between Nile Delta and North Sinai by El Salam Canal. The ongoing project aims at reclamation of 400.000 feddans (Hafez, 2005 and Mohamed, 2013). Groundwater is the one available source of water in the study area beside support of El-Salam canal, so the assessment of agricultural potentiality in the Northern Sinai area requires water resources evaluation. The general geology and geomorphology of the area under study are outlined in the geology of Egypt from (Said, 1990; Deiab, 1998; and Geological Survey of Egypt GSE, 1992), which is a geologically, the Northwestern Sinai is covered by Quaternary deposits. The Pleistocene deposits include: Sahl El-Tineh formation which composed of a mixture of black and white sands with silt,

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