Jebel Uweinat

Satellite picture of Mount Oweinat

Gabal Oweinat ( 1,934 m; Arabic جبل عوينات Jabal ʿ Oweinat, Egyptian Arabic: Jabal ʿ Oweinat, also Auenat, Ouenat, Ouinat, Owainat, Uwaynat, Uweinat, Uwenat, Uweynat etc. ) is a mountain in the Egyptian- Libyan- Sudanese border triangle. The name means "mountain of small sources ."

Geography

The borders are drawn in this part of the Sahara with a ruler. With a height of 1934 meters elevation, Mount Bagnold, as well as the greater part of the massif are in Libya.

Geology

The Gebel Uweinat is a granitic intrusion. Valleys are called here instead of Wadi Karkur.

The Gabal Oweinat can be geologically divided into two areas.

The western part is the eroded part of a granite dome, the ( 25 km in diameter ) comes to light today as a ring complex. To the west of Jabal Oweinat is drained by three major valleys: Karkur Hamid, Karkur Idriss and Karkur Ibrahim. To the south are two sources to find: Ain Ghazal and Ain Doua. Are fed these sources only from rainwater, but they are not more like dry since time immemorial.

The eastern area consists of Paleozoic sandstone, which rests on Precambrian basement rocks. The complex valley systems in the east end in the Karkur Tahl. In Karkur Murr is a permanent water body (so-called guelta ) Ain al - Brin ( Bir Murr ).

History

In prehistoric times this area was still inhabited. In Oweinat thousands of petroglyphs were discovered.

Exploration of Gabal Oweinat

  • Ahmed Pasha Hassanein: found 1923 Water Resources and petroglyphs at Jabal Oweinat and charted the area.
  • Ralph Alger Bagnold: was on the road in 1930 with the car in the desert region.
  • 1933 Ludovico Di Caporiacco
  • 1933 Ladislaus Almásy, Leo Frobenius and Hans Rhotert
  • 1937 Interdisciplinary Bagnold Moon expedition
  • 1962 E. Bellini and S. aria documented rock art in Karkur Idris
  • 1968/1969 Francis van Noten and his team documented the Karkur TALH
  • Since 1998, documentation by András Zboray
  • 2007 Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai discovered a hieroglyphic inscription, and the cartridge of King Mentuhotep II
Erosion Mentuhotep II.
87630
de