Shallow geophysical techniques to investigate the groundwater table at the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

Sharafeldin, Sharafeldin M.; Essa, Khalid S.; Youssef, Mohamed A. S.; Karsli, Hakan; Diab, Zein E.; Sayil, Nilgun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-29-2019

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-29-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-29-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

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04 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 04 Feb 2019

Shallow geophysical techniques to investigate the groundwater table at the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

Sharafeldin M. Sharafeldin, Khalid S. Essa, Mohamed A. S. Youssef, Hakan Karsli, Zein E. Diab, and Nilgun Sayil

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SC1: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Essam Morsy, 24 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Mohamed Youssef, 04 Feb 2018
AC1: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Mohamed Youssef, 04 Feb 2018
SC2: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Essam Morsy, 05 Feb 2018
SC3: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Essam Morsy, 05 Feb 2018
- AC3: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Mohamed Youssef, 05 Feb 2018
RC1: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Jun 2018
AC4: 'Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt', Mohamed Youssef, 04 Jul 2018
RC2: 'comment on "Shallow Geophysical Techniques to Investigate the Groundwater Table at the Giza Pyramids Area, Giza, Egypt"', Anonymous Referee #4, 15 Nov 2018

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Integrated geophysical techniques (ERT, SSR, and GPR) along the conducted profiles at the Great Pyramids of Giza have been successfully used to investigate the groundwater table and support hazard mitigation. The groundwater table elevation is 15 m under the Great Sphinx, which is safe, and at the Nazlet El-Samman it is 16–17 m.