Microfacies, diagenesis, and depositional environments of the Tertiary carbonates of Usfan Formation in Haddat Ash Sham area, Western Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia

Taj, Rushdi J.

doi:10.1007/s12517-011-0410-8

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“…(b) Sinai where orange band = calculated cumulative uplift history (width reflects long period variation of precipitation rate); black circle/hatching = uplift estimated from denudation measurements [ Kohn and Eyal , ]; red circle/black hatching = uplift estimated from denudation measurements [ Feinstein et al ., ]; age range of marine fauna from Thebes Formation [ Garfunkel , ; Farouk and Faris , ]; RTS/RSSG/DSG = regional truncation surface/Red Sea Supergroup/Dead Sea Group [ Avni et al ., ]. (c) Western Arabian Swell where green band = calculated cumulative uplift history; black hatching = uplift estimated from denudation measurements [ Bohannon et al ., ]; red square with error bar = air‐loaded residual topography from adjacent Red Sea; M = marine fauna of Usfan and Umm Himar formations [ Kluyver et al ., ; Madden et al ., ; Şengör , ; Taj , ]; cessation of laterites constrained by age of oldest overlying basalt [ Coleman et al ., ]; appearance of the Ahwaz delta [ Şengör , ]. (d) Yemen where blue band = cumulative uplift history; black hatching = uplift estimated from denudation measurements [ Menzies et al ., ]; age range of marine fauna from Twailah Group [ Al‐Subbary et al ., ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three lines of evidence support this, the simplest, starting model. First, there is fragmentary evidence that Eocene marine limestones fringed the Western Arabian swell (Figures 14a and 17c) [Madden et al, 1980;Kluyver et al, 1981;Madden et al, 1995;Al-Subbary et al, 1998;Taj, 2013]. Second, remnants of Cretaceous-Paleogene laterites, saprolite and bauxites, suggestive of low topographic gradient, sporadically crop out [Chapman, 1978;Brown et al, 1989;Salpeteur and Sebir, 1989].…”

Section: Uplift As Function Of Time and Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Figure 20, we have inverted three river profiles from the Harrat Rahat region to investigate how different [Abdulkader, 1979;Hopson et al, 1981;Schmidt et al, 1983;Bohannon, 1987;Pallister, 1987;Bohannon et al, 1989;Roger et al, 1989;Gow and Lozej, 1993;Drury et al, 1994;Collenette and Grainger, 1994;Alsharhan and Nasir, 1996;Schwarz and Germann, 1999;Babalola et al, 2003;Al-Bassam, 2005]; blue circles 5 loci of marine deposits [Madden et al, 1995;Al-Subbary et al, 1998;Farouk and Faris, 2012;Taj, 2013]; dotted pattern 5 regions where calculated uplift rate history may be unreliable (poor drainage recovery). (e-k) Solid red polygons 5 active volcanic fields (i.e., harrats); open red polygons 5 inactive volcanic fields; colored circles 5 nodes at which uplift history is shown in Figure 23; yellow patches 5 clastic deltaic deposits [Şeng€ or, 2001;Bache et al, 2011;Steinberg et al, 2011].…”

Section: Precipitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Calculated cumulative uplift for lowstand drainage network (i.e.,

\int_{0}^{t} U (x, y, t) d t

) as function of space and time from 50 Ma to present day. (c) blue circles = loci of marine deposits [ Madden et al ., ; Al‐Subbary et al ., ; Farouk and Faris , ; Taj , ]; brown circles = loci of laterite/saprolite/bauxite deposits [ Abdulkader , ; Hopson et al ., ; Schmidt et al ., ; Bohannon , ; Pallister , ; Bohannon et al ., ; Roger et al ., ; Gow and Lozej , ; Drury et al ., ; Collenette and Grainger , ; Alsharhan and Nasir , ; Schwarz and Germann , ; Babalola et al ., ; Al‐Bassam , ]; dotted pattern = regions where recovered uplift history may be less reliable. (e, g, i, k) Solid red polygons = active volcanic fields; open red polygons = inactive volcanic fields.…”

Section: Calculating Uplift Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cenozoic epeirogeny of the Arabian Peninsula from drainage modeling

Wilson

Hoggard

White

2014

Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.

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It is generally accepted that the Arabian Peninsula has been uplifted by subcrustal processes.Positive residual depth anomalies from oceanic crust in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden suggest that a region surrounding this peninsula is dynamically supported. Admittance calculations, surface wave tomography studies, and receiver function analyses all imply that regional topography is generated and maintained by some combination of mantle convective circulation and lithospheric thickness changes. Despite these significant advances, the spatial and temporal uplift rate history of the Arabian Peninsula is not well known. Here we show that a regional uplift rate history can be obtained by jointly inverting 225 longitudinal river profiles that drain this peninsula. Our strategy assumes that shapes of individual river profiles are controlled by uplift rate history and moderated by erosional processes. We used local measurements of incision rate to calibrate the relevant erosional parameters. In our inverse algorithm, uplift rate is permitted to vary smoothly as a function of space and time but upstream drainage area remains invariant. We also assume that knickzone migration is not lithologically controlled. Implications of these important assumptions have been investigated. Our results suggest that the Arabian Peninsula underwent two phases of asymmetric uplift during the last 20-30 Ma at rates of 0.05-0.1 mm a 21 . The southwestern flank of the peninsula has been uplifted by 1.5-2.5 km. Regional stratigraphic constraints, the age and composition of volcanism, paleosol formation, incised peneplains, emergent marine terraces, and thermochronometric measurements corroborate our calculated patterns of uplift. Progressive development of three domal swells along the western margin of the peninsula is consistent with localized upwelling of hot asthenospheric mantle.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Uplift As Function Of Time and Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Precipitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Calculated cumulative uplift for lowstand drainage network (i.e.,

\int_{0}^{t} U (x, y, t) d t

Section: Calculating Uplift Historiesmentioning

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Cenozoic epeirogeny of the Arabian Peninsula from drainage modeling

Wilson

Hoggard

White

2014

Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.

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“…One can summarize the lithostratigraphy of Haddat Ash Sham Formation as being composed of thin fossiliferous carbonate beds sandwiched between shales, mudstones and sandstones below, and alternating shales and sandstones above. The study of the microfacies and diagenesis of the Haddat Ash Sham Formation led Taj [9] to assume that the formation was deposited in lagoonal to fluvio-lacustrine environment.…”

Section: The First Fossiliferous Bed Of Haddat Ash Shammentioning

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A New Insight into the Biostratigraphy of Usfan and Haddat Ash Sham Formations, West Central Saudi Arabia

Gameil¹,

AA²,

Thiga³

2022

Int J Earth Sci Geophys

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A clastic-dominated sedimentary succession is exposed in different localities at the central part of western Saudi Arabia, unconformably overlying the weathered Precambrian Arabian Shield rocks. The age and chronological relationships of the different formational names applied to that succession is still a matter of debate among geologists. The succession is assigned to Cretaceous-Eocene or Oligo-Miocene according to the ages of the overlying Tertiary basic volcanics (harrat).Field study of the paleontological and biostratigraphical characteristics of the two formations, namely Usfan and Haddat Ash Sham; show that they are chronologically equivalent. The fauna of both formations is dominated by bivalves and gastropods but they are more common in Usfan than in Haddat Ash Sham Formation.The first record of the Radiolitids Eoradiolites liratus (Conrad) that is common in the Albian-Turonian strata of Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and Algeria, and the neritid gastropod Nerinea coquandiana d'Orbigny which is common in the Aptian-Cenomanian strata of southern France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Lebanon, North Africa and Somalia, as well as the nautiloid Angulithes mermeti (Coquand) which is characteristic to the Upper Cenomanian of Tunisia, Egypt and Spain testifies a Cenomanian-Turonian or at most an Upper Cretaceous age for the studied two formations.

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