The senonian succession in israel—Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sea level changes

Flexer, A.; Honigstein, A.

doi:10.1016/s0195-6671(84)80026-9

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“…The major Late Cretaceous transgression placed central Syria, Jordan, Negev and southern Sinai in a middle-to inner-shelf position from the late Turonian to the mid Eocene (Flexer and Honigstein, 1984;Bein et al, 1990;Hawie et al, 2013a). Lebanon, Galilee, western Israel, Gaza and northern Sinai were located in an outer-shelf setting at that time (Fig.…”

Section: Exploration Implications For the Levant Basinmentioning

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Depositional Environment and Source‐rock Characterisation of Organic‐matter Rich Upper Santonian – Upper Campanian Carbonates, Northern Lebanon

Daher

Nader

Strauß

et al. 2013

Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Section: Exploration Implications For the Levant Basinmentioning

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Depositional Environment and Source‐rock Characterisation of Organic‐matter Rich Upper Santonian – Upper Campanian Carbonates, Northern Lebanon

Daher

Nader

Strauß

et al. 2013

Journal of Petroleum Geology

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“…Flexer and Starinsky (1970), Steinitz (1976) and Flexer and Honigstein (1984) focused primarily on the lithology and microfossils of the Fig. 11 Three attachments of the oyster Pycnodonte on a reworked concretion.…”

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Origin, palaeoecology and stratigraphic significance of bored and encrusted concretions from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of southern Israel

Wilson

Zatoń

Avni

2012

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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Reworked concretions have been significant substrates for boring and encrusting organisms through the Phanerozoic. They provide large, relatively stable calcareous surfaces in systems where sedimentation is minimal. Diverse sclerobiont communities have inhabited reworked concretions since the Ordovician, so they have been important contributors to our understanding of the evolution of these ecological systems. Here, we describe reworked concretions from southern Israel where they are critical for interpreting the stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary sequence. These cobblesized concretions (averaging roughly 1,000 cm 3 ) are found at the base of the Menuha Formation (Santonian to lower Campanian, Mount Scopus Group) unconformably above the top of the Zihor Formation (Turonian-Coniacian, Judea Group) exposed in the Ramon region of the Negev Highlands. The concretions are almost entirely composed of micritic limestone, and many are exhumed, cemented burrow-fills apparently from 10-20 m of upper Zihor Formation strata removed by erosion. There are also a few cobbles of dolomitic limestone and rare vertebrate bone.The cobbles are moderately to heavily bored by bivalves (producing Gastrochaenolites) and worms (forming Trypanites), and a few have cemented oysters. They are densely arrayed in a single layer, often touching each other or only a few centimeters apart. The sclerobionts associated with the cobbles, along with their hydrodynamic arrangement, strongly suggest that these cobbles accumulated in very shallow water above normal wave base. Most of them (77%) are encrusted on their top surfaces only, indicating that they were bored in place and not later delivered to a deeper environment by submarine currents. The rest of the Menuha Formation above is a chalk with relatively few macrofossils (primarily shark teeth and oysters) and a few trace fossils (Planolites and Thalassinoides are the most common). These reworked cobbles show that the initial deposits of the Menuha Formation accumulated in very shallow water. This has important implications for the development of the Syrian Arc structures in this region, especially the Ramon Monocline.

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“…At the top of the range, the soft Mt. Scopus Group (SenonianPaleocene) with marl, chalk and clay occurs and reaches thickness of 100 m to 400 m. These variations are controlled by anti-and synclinal structures of the compressional Syrian Arc phase (Flexer and Honigstein, 1984). The entire range is deeply cut by wadis, draining towards the Dead Sea.…”

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Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Mallast

Gloaguen

Geyer

et al. 2011

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In this paper we present a semi-automatic method to infer groundwater flow-paths based on the extraction of lineaments from digital elevation models. This method is especially adequate in remote and inaccessible areas where in-situ data are scarce. The combined method of linear filtering and object-based classification provides a lineament map with a high degree of accuracy. Subsequently, lineaments are differentiated into geological and morphological lineaments using auxiliary information and finally evaluated in terms of hydro-geological significance. Using the example of the western catchment of the Dead Sea (Israel/Palestine), the orientation and location of the differentiated lineaments are compared to characteristics of known structural features. We demonstrate that a strong correlation between lineaments and structural features exists. Using Euclidean distances between lineaments and wells provides an assessment criterion to evaluate the hydraulic significance of detected lineaments. Based on this analysis, we suggest that the statistical analysis of lineaments allows a delineation of flow-paths and thus significant information on groundwater movements. To validate the flow-paths we compare them to existing results of groundwater models that are based on well data.

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The senonian succession in israel—Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sea level changes

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Depositional Environment and Source‐rock Characterisation of Organic‐matter Rich Upper Santonian – Upper Campanian Carbonates, Northern Lebanon

Depositional Environment and Source‐rock Characterisation of Organic‐matter Rich Upper Santonian – Upper Campanian Carbonates, Northern Lebanon

Origin, palaeoecology and stratigraphic significance of bored and encrusted concretions from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of southern Israel

Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

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