The foraminiferal contents and geochemistry of 199 samples collected from three surface sections in the southern Galala Sub-basin, North Eastern Desert of Egypt, have been studied in detail. From south to north these sections are situated at Gebel Tarboul, Wadi Tarfa, and Bir Dakhl. The results allow reconstructing of the depositional environments and high resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous–Palaeogene succession.

In this paper, we introduce a new class of distributions called power quasi Lindley (PQL) distribution for modeling non-monotone survival data. This class of distributions includes several distributions such as Lindley, power Lindley, quasi Lindley, gamma, and generalized gamma distributions as special cases. Some statistical properties of the PQL distribution are explicitly derived.