Galal el Din Hafez Awad, Egyptian geologist and palaeontologist (fl. 1938-75)

First to report a miniature pillar effect oriented perpendicular to the bedding planes

With M.Y. Hassan. Evidence of rain erosion in the Kharga Oasis. Bull. Inst. Desert d’Egypte 7(2):55-8, 1975

DESCRIBED

Genus

Praecardiomyia 1952

Species

Ancilla abdoi 1967 with Abed

Dracomya nagaensis 1945

Euspira morisi 1967 with Abed

Gyrodes amini 1967 with Abed

Heligmotoma dakhlensis 1967 with Abed

Ispharina tarturensis 1967 with Abed

Mesalia gigantia 1967 with Abed

Mesalia paleocenica 1967 with Abed

Mesalia zitteli 1967 with Abed 

Myophoria coxi 1946

Nerinea dentiloba 1952

Nerinea hallalensis 1952

Nerinea mandhourensis 1952

Nerinea mistanensis 1952

Nerinea perolissoponensis 1952

Nerinea sinaitica 1952

Nerinella lahfanensis 1952

Pachycrommium moradi 1967 with Abed

Praecardiomyia sinaitica 1952

Sinum deserti 1967 with Abed

Torquesia abbassi 1967 with Abed 

Torquesia akkadi 1967 with Abed

Torquesia nazikae 1967 with Abed

Turritella saharica 1967 with Abed

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With E.M. Naim. A study on the variability of genus Carbonicola McCoy. Bull. Fac. Sci. Alex. Univ. 9:301-8, 1970

With M.M.Abed. Biostratigraphical zoning of the lower Tertiary in the Dakhla Oasis. Papers Geol. Survey Egypt 47 (1968)

With A. Abdallah. Upper Cretaceous in Southern Galala, Eastern Desert with emphasis on neighboring áreas. Egypt J. Geol. 10(2):25-144, 1966

With M.G. Ghobrial. Zonal stratigraphy of the Kharga oasis. Geol. Survey Egypt (1966)

With E.M. Naim & H.F. Abdou. The Campanian-Maestrichtian boundary and the phosphate series. Bull. Fac. Sci. Alexandria 6:257-70, 1964

M. A. Fawzi. The Cenomanian transgression over Egypt. Bull. Inst. Desert d’Egypt 6(1):168-84, 1956

On the occurrence of the marine Triassic (muschelkalk) deposits in Sinai. Bull. Inst d’Egypte 27:397-427, 1946

Secondary and Tertiary fauna of North Sinai, PhD Geology, London University (1940)

HONORS

Subgenus Awadia Abbass 1962 (Fossil Mollusca)