Paleogeographic relation of the Egyptian Northern Galala with the Tethys during the Cretaceous Period

Integration of the carbonate and the clastic facies analysis with the lithostratigraphic correlation of the Cretaceous sediments through the Southern and the Northern Galala Plateaux exhibited that the first Tethyan flooding had encroached the area through the Aptian-Albian. The second invasion occurred with the beginning of the Cenomanian and continued throughout the Late Cretaceous on the area of Southern Galala Plateau, which stayed in connection with the Tethys, while the area of Northern Galala Plateau, most probably, had emerged after the Turonian time or the younger Cretaceous ages till Middle Paleocene.