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Southern Tip of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt: Madiq Gubal, the strait between the Egyptian mainland and Ras Muhammad on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, is just above center of this southwestward view. The islands of Tiran and Sinafir are at left center. The islands and fringing coral reefs mark the edges of fault blocks, which have the same orientations as the faults onshore - for example, the straight, sharp contact between the darker bedrock of the Sinai Peninsula and the paler coastal sands. Gebel Musa or Mt. Sinai (2285 m), with the monastery of St. Catherine on the northern flank, is within the dark oblong area in the midst of the bedrock shield. Tan and rust-colored sedimentary rocks contrast with the brown Precambrian igneous basement rocks; lighter oval bodies within the shield are granite masses.

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