What is "gebel"

Usage examples of "gebel".

It held sway, at the outset, over both banks, from range to range, northward as far as Deyrut, where the true Bahr Yusuf leaves the Nile, and southward to the neighbourhood of Gebel Sheikh Haridi.

It was a particularly bleak part of the valley floor, a nearly flat area of desert pavement not far from a low mesa called Gebel el Fagga.

Since the sediments of Gebel el Dist have been undisturbed by major geological forces, they remain in their original horizontal position.

When he had watered the horses, Gil came to where Taita sat on a boulder overlooking the wadi of Gebel Wadun and handed him a ceramic water jug.

The Gebel el Dist member is typically described as “made up of fine-grained, well-bedded, ferruginous [iron-rich] clastics [grainy rock] carrying a large number of fossils including vertebrates in the lower levels and an assortment of oysters and other fossils in middle and upper layers.