Cyclic hierarchy and depositional sequences of the Middle-Upper Eocene ramp facies: An example from Beni Suef area, east Nile Valley, Egypt

Hussein, Ahmed W.

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.08.015

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“…This now manifests with a large fraction of the shallow‐water carbonates of the study area being comprised of LBF‐dominated facies. These results are also supported by the lithostratigraphic information reported by Höntzsch et al (2011) and Hussein (2019) for Egypt, by Schaub et al (1995), Buchbinder et al (2005) and Rosenfeld and Hirsch (2005) for Israel, by Farouk et al (2013) for Jordan, by Alsharhan and Nairn (1995) for the Arabian Peninsula, by Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for UAE, by Bernecker (2014) for Oman, by Sissakian (2013), Ameen‐Lawa and Ghafur (2015), and Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for Iraq, by Reuter et al (2009), Van Buchem et al (2010), Yazdi‐Moghadam et al (2018a), Hadi et al (2019), Dill et al (2020) and Benedetti et al (2021) for Iran, by Akhtar and Butt (1999), Naveed and Chaudhry (2008), Afzal et al (2011b), Özcan et al (2015), Ahmad et al (2016), Khan et al (2018) and Özcan et al (2018) for Pakistan, by Gaetani et al (1983), Less et al (2018) and Sarkar (2018) for India, and by Zhang et al (2013) for China. Other reviews of Cenozoic carbonate production in the Eurasian province also highlighted a remarkable abundance of LBF during the Palaeocene, Eocene (where they dominates), Oligocene and early Miocene (BouDagher‐Fadel, 2018; Cornacchia et al, 2021; Geel, 2000; Nebelsick et al, 2005; Pomar et al, 2017; Scheibner & Speijer, 2008).…”

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“…This now manifests with a large fraction of the shallow-water carbonates of the study area being comprised of LBF-dominated facies. These results are also supported by the lithostratigraphic information reported by Höntzsch et al (2011) and Hussein (2019) for Egypt, by Schaub et al (1995), Buchbinder et al (2005) and Rosenfeld and Hirsch (2005) for Israel, by Farouk et al (2013) for Jordan, by Alsharhan and Nairn (1995) for the Arabian Peninsula, by Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for UAE, by Bernecker (2014) for Oman, by Sissakian (2013), Ameen-Lawa and Ghafur (2015), and Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for Cornacchia et al, 2021;Geel, 2000;Nebelsick et al, 2005;Pomar et al, 2017;Scheibner & Speijer, 2008). A similar pattern can be also observed in the American province (Aguilera et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 86%

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Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

Coletti

Commissario

Mariani

et al. 2022

The Depositional Record

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Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

Coletti

Commissario

Mariani

et al. 2022

The Depositional Record

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“…These results are also supported by the lithostratigraphic information reported by Höntzsch et al (2011) and Hussein (2019) for Egypt, by Schaub et al (1995), Buchbinder et al (2005) and Rosenfeld and Hirsch (2005) for Israel, by Farouk et al (2013) for Jordan, by Alsharhan and Nairn (1995) for the Arabian Peninsula, by Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for UAE, by Bernecker (2014) for Oman, by Sissakian (2013), Ameen-Lawa and Ghafur (2015), and Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for Iraq, by 2020) and Benedetti et al (2021) for Iran, by Akhtar and Butt (1999), Naveed and Chaudhry (2008), Afzal et al (2010), Özcan et al (2015), Ahmad et al (2016), Khan et al (2018) and Özcan et al (2018) for Pakistan, by Gaetani et al (1983), Less et al (2018) and Sarkar (2018) for India, and by Zhang et al (2013) for China. Other reviews of carbonate production in the Eurasian province during the Cenozoic also highlighted a remarkable abundance of LBF during the Paleocene, Eocene (where they dominates), Oligocene and early Miocene (Geel, 2000;Nebelsick et al, 2005;Scheibner and Speijer, 2008;Pomar et al, 2017;Boudagher-Fadel, 2018;Cornacchia et al, 2021).…”

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Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

Coletti¹,

Commissario²,

Mariani³

et al. 2022

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One hundred and forty-four sections of shallow-water carbonates, deposited between the Paleocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalaya, have been investigated to analyze the distribution of carbonate facies and carbonate producing organisms. Large benthic foraminifera resulted the volumetrically most important group of carbonate producers during the whole period, with a peak in abundance during the Eocene. Colonial corals are relatively abundant during the Paleocene and in the Miocene, their abundance peak during the Oligocene and has a minimum during the Eocene. Red calcareous algae have a similar pattern although their peak in abundance covers both the Oligocene and the Miocene. Green calcareous algae decrease from the Paleocene onward. Facies related to very shallow and/or restricted marine conditions peak during the Miocene and in particular during the Aquitanian. Both the pattern of large benthic foraminifera and of colonial corals seems to be related to temperatures, with warm periods favoring the former and cool periods the latter. Red calcareous algae display a pattern similar to that of colonial corals suggesting that the periods favorable for one group, on the large scale, are also favorable for the other. The progressive decrease of green calcareous algae could be tentatively related to a preservation bias connected to the transition from Paleogene assemblages that included presumably calcitic taxa of green algae and Neogene assemblages entirely constituted by aragonitic taxa with limited preservation potential. The Aquitanian peak in facies related to very shallow and/or restricted marine conditions is most likely connected to the progressive narrowing of the Tethys related to the collision between Arabia and Eurasia. These results denote an overall agreement between the abundance of the various types of shallow-water carbonate facies and large-scale environmental and geological processes, highlighting the potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction locked in the shallow-water record.

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“…Although the Eocene sequence stratigraphy in Eocene successions of north Eastern Desert was subject to few studies, a sequence stratigraphic classification for the Middle-Upper Eocene succession in the studied area is attempted also here for the first time. Although the Eocene sequence stratigraphy of north Eastern Desert was previously studied by a few number of authors (Tawfik et al, 2016;Saber and Salama, 2017;Hussein, 2019), the present study highlight the planktonic foraminifera ratio and sea level changes from the perspective of sequence stratigraphy.…”

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Eocene planktonic foraminifera from the north Eastern Desert, Egypt: Biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphy implications

Salama

Sayed

Saber

et al. 2021

Palaeontol Electron

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The Eocene succession at Beni Suef -El Zaafarana District in north Eastern Desert is rich in planktonic foraminiferal assemblages. The main objectives of this work are to use the planktonic foraminifera to recognize the biostratigraphy for the Middle-Upper Eocene succession in the study area. Seventy planktonic foraminiferal species belonging to 20 genera and seven families are identified from the Eocene El Fashn and Beni Suef formations. Three planktonic foraminiferal biozones are recognized. These are from older to younger Morozovelloides crassatus Zone (late Middle Eocene) that is recorded from El Fashn Formation, Globigerinatheka semiinvoluta Zone (latest Middle Eocene -Late Eocene) and Globigerinatheka index Zone (Late Eocene age) that are recorded from the Beni Suef Formation while the Maadi Formation is found barren in planktonic foraminifera. These zones are correlated with those from nearby areas in Egypt and the Mediterranean regions. The Middle/Upper Eocene (Bartonian/Priabonian) boundary is discussed here in detail. The percentage of the planktonic foraminifera in the total foraminiferal content (P %) points to a change in water depth. There was a significant decrease in the planktonic/benthic foraminiferal ratio from the late Middle Eocene El Fashn Formation to the Late Eocene Maadi Formation at Beni Suef -El Zaafarana District. This ratio change supports a shallowing upward in paleodepth. Based on the lithology, planktonic/benthic ratio and the obtained water depth, the studied Eocene succession could be subdivided into four depositional sequences. These sequences agree with the global eustatic sea-level and the depositional sequences in nearby areas.

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Cyclic hierarchy and depositional sequences of the Middle-Upper Eocene ramp facies: An example from Beni Suef area, east Nile Valley, Egypt

Cited by 7 publications

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Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

Eocene planktonic foraminifera from the north Eastern Desert, Egypt: Biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphy implications

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