...F ig . 1. Maps of Tunisia and Cap Bon peninsula showing sampling stations (Menzel Temime and El Haouaria) within the Quaternary study area. ...

... ( Fig. 3 ), of which the lower, or Petit Portage, now is assigned to the St. Léon Formation. The three members of the Cap Bon Ami consist of fairly pure, thinly bedded, gray limestone at their type section (Forillon peninsula, Fig. 4 ), but these members cannot be recognized inland. The Cap Bon Ami...

...FIG. 11. —Tunisia: Abd-er-Rahmane anticline, Cap Bon peninsula. ...

...Figure 1 —Location map of the Cap Bon Peninsula, Sahel, and the Gulf of Hammamet in eastern Tunisia. ...

... et al. 1994 and corrected based on petroleum and seismic sections). (a) Background image source: World Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS User Community. The northeastern coast is a semi-arid Mediterranean region that belongs to the Cap Bon peninsula, Tunisia...

... area .—To date there is no commercial petroleum production from Tunisia. The nearest approach is in the Cap Bon area on the peninsula of that name in northeastern Tunisia where SEREPT’s Cap Bon-1 on the large Abd er Rahmane structure produced 17,500,000 cubic feet of gas during 23 days in October, 1949...

... Bon Ami and Grande Grevè Formations. Mass spectrometry and Gas-Solid-Chromatography analyses, undertaken on an oil sample recovered from the overlying Lower Devonian York River Formation, and on two source-rock extracts from the Grande Grevè and Cap Bon Ami Formations, show that the oil is relatively...

... of the structure, failed to encounter the gas sands; it was abandoned at 2,420.6 meters (7,939 feet) in Jurassic limestone. The rig from Cap Bon 7 was moved to a location at Kelibia near the point of the Cap Bon Peninsula on a surface anticline truncated by the sea and exposing Oligocene sands at the crest...

..., and the Lac Croche limestone and dolomite. Farther east, the St. Léon siltstone grades upward into the Cap Bon Ami calcareous mudstone and argillaceous limestone. Helderbergian fossils are present in the Cap Bon Ami at about 500 ft above the base; below that the rocks may be Silurian (“Skalian...

... Thala-Ebba Ksour-Le Kef, and Téboursouk-Béja-Sedjenane, respectively. All of these exploration permits terminate on August 25, 1954, and the operating companies must choose a reduced acreage for continuing exploration for an additional 3-year period. Cap Bon Peninsula .—No further drilling...

... other geologists have examined Silurian strata in various parts of the peninsula. Clarke (1900 , 1908 , 1913 ) grouped Logan’s members of the Siluro-Devonian Forillon Peninsula section in eastern Gaspé into three formations, the St. Alban, Cape Bon Ami, and Grande Greve. Schuchert and Dart (1926...

.... In the Cap Bon Peninsula, these domains correspond to 1) A relatively deep marine area that is individualized in the southwestern part of Jebel Abderrahmane where the Souar Formation is characterized by pelagic microfauna rich shale. 2) A shallow fore reef area established toward the northeastern part...

... lower member of the Cap Bon Ami Formation) is assigned to the late Wenlockian and Ludlovian with no paleontologic information given except a confused list of graptolites which partly contradicts the age assignment. Burk chose to discard the evidence afforded by shelly fossils from the Roncelles...

..., and Société Pechelbronn. The SEREPT wildcat well on Cap Bon Peninsula which was started in February, 1948, reached the final depth of 3,336 meters (10,942 feet) in September, 1949. The well was started near the crest of the large Abd er Rahmane surface structure in Eocene strata and was carried down through...

.../s. The Cap Bon region is considered as a typical example of a geothermal sector, featuring both onshore and offshore thermal springs, as well as numerous deep wells that capture hot waters all over the area. However, the hydrogeothermal potential of this area needs to be better evaluated through...