Problems of the Nile Valley

OR some years the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has maintained an investigation of the late-Tertiary and Quaternary deposits of the Nile and its tributaries, the results of which are now appearing in a series of volumes.1 An outline of progress may, therefore, be not unwelcome at this juncture. For our purposes we may begin the history of the Nile Valley with Miocene time, when the most striking changes in topography probably took place. A series of gentle north-south folds was created, which was crossed by more acute folds and fault belts of about eastnortheast trend. These have been analyzed and described by Dr. W. F. Hume.2 In his opinion-based on more than 30 years' official work in Egypt-the Nile was established in one of the north-south synclines, in which it remains throughout the greater part of its course in Egypt (Fig. i). Dr. Hume's work, the researches of Dr. John Ball, and the early surveys by H. J. L. Beadnell have displaced the theory that the Nile Valley is a rift, and there is a mass of recent detailed corroborative evidence

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