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Dietary feeding lycopene, citric acid, and Chlorella alleviated the neurotoxicity of polyethylene microplastics (PE-MPs) in African catfish (Clarias gariepinus)

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Mohamed HamedHamdy A. M. SolimanZainab Eid[...]Alaa El-Din Hamid Sayed
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Growth performance and hematological, biochemical, and histological characters of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, Linnaeus, 1758) cultivated in an aquaponic system with green onion: The first study about the aquaponic system in Sohag, Egypt

Elucidating the ameliorative effects of the cyanobacterium Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) and several microalgal species against the negative impacts of the aquatic contaminants in freshwater fish: A review

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Hany M.R. Abdel-LatifSaeed El-AshramAlaa El-Din Hamid Sayed[...]Dariusz Kucharczyk
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2022

Geophysical Evidence for Magmatism Southwest of the Brothers Islands, Northern Red Sea (Offshore Quseir, Egypt)

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The Red Sea formed as a consequence of Cenozoic rifting between the African and Arabian plates. While continuous oceanic spreading is active in the southern and central sectors, in the northern Red Sea, exposure of oceanic crust is limited to a few along-axis isolated deeps. However, several off-axis magmatic edifices have been recognized in this sector, their description in terms of relative age and architectural features remains vague. One of these, offshore Quseir corresponding to a kilometer-size structural high, was studied in detail using 3D industrial seismic data. This structure is interpreted as due to the coalescence of different volcanic edifices developed on the footwall of a major rift-related normal fault. Magnetic and gravity data and forward modeling suggest a volcanic nature of the substratum underlying the morphological relief. A similar volcanic origin is proposed for other neighboring basement hills that show a similar magnetic signal. Relationships with the imaged seismo-stratigraphic sequences point to a Pleistocene age for the magmatic event. Arabian alkali-basalts, at the same latitude as Quseir, show ages comparable to those inferred for the volcano edifice studied, suggesting a similar geotectonic context. In western Arabian plate, large alkali-lava fields (Harrats) developed along rift-related faults since the early stages of the Red Sea rift (Late Oligocene). They display a significant northward rejuvenation trend that may be explained by the progressive propagation of the Afar mantle plume.

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Moamen Ali, Marco Ligi, Andrea Ceriani, Fateh Bouchaala, William Bosworth, Alessandro Decarlis
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Tectonics
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2022
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