.... (1988) , and which has been considered as a transitional phase between continental and oceanic rifting by Cochran and Martinez (1988) . It is believed to be responsible for the triangular shape of the Midyan region that lies within the zone bounded by the Red Sea rift margin and the new plate boundary...

.... This continuous, point-sourced sedimentation is indicative of stable drainage and by inference, a stable eastern border fault system. We attribute this stable border fault system to a stress heterogeneity related to the pre-existing Najd Shear Zone, and polarity reversals in upper-plate transport direction...

... of Aqaba has opened 26 km perpendicular to the Aqaba/Dead Sea strike-slip fault system due to a slight rotation of the Arabian Plate as it migrated northward. Major faults are shown in white. Midyan Field wells are labeled A, B and C. The Midyan 3-D seismic survey is shown in orange. ...

... is proposed in a lexicon format that integrates biostratigraphic, sedimentological, seismic and field studies from the Midyan Peninsula in the north, to the Jizan Coastal Plain in the south. In view of the economic aspect of the Neogene succession and greater accessibility to Neogene subsurface samples...

... ), these suites are generated in back-arc and within-plate settings and indicate a change in tectonic process from older A-types associated with suture zones. Fortunately, the Midyan and Hijaz terranes in the western Arabian Shield provide an excellent example to explore this petrogenetic transition...

... 6.0 ( Collins et al. 2013 ). Overall, distribution of Miocene corals and coral reefs was influenced by eustasy, plate tectonics, and associated changes in climate and paleoceanographic conditions ( Renema et al. 2008 ; Mathew et al. 2020 ; Steinthorsdottir et al. 2021 ). During the Miocene...

... sector of the Red Sea and is a segment of the East Africa rift system, which acted as a divergent plate boundary between the Arabian and African plates during Oligocene–Miocene rifting. This area is characterized by the exposures of rift shoulders (Precambrian basement massifs) on both sides of the Red...

...Denis Mougenot; Amir A. Al-Shakhis ABSTRACT In the Midyan Peninsula (onshore northern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia), the current prospective oil and gas exploration targets are sub-salt structures. In this region, conventional time-migrated seismic sections are distorted due to the presence of salt...

... extension of the subducting Arabian Plate below the Eurasian Plate (Bellahsen et al. , 2003) and the thermal weakening of the lithosphere due to the East-Africa hotspot track (Vicente de Gouveia et al. , 2018). Rifting started during the Oligocene and extended from the Gulf of Suez to the southern Red Sea...

... Waqb Member of the Jabal Kibrit Formation and of the Pliocene Badr Formation of the Lisan Group. The Midyan area of the northern Red Sea offers a unique window into the Cretaceous and Miocene succession that is otherwise only present in the deep subsurface. The sediments are of hydrocarbon interest...

...). E iland , M., and G udmundsson , G., Taxonomy of some Recent Nodosariinae (Foraminifera) from the North Atlantic, with notes on wall lamination.—Micropaleontology, v. 50, no. 2, 2004, p. 195–210, 2 figures, 5 plates, 1 table.—“Morphological characters of twelve Recent species of Nodosariinae...

... the eastern part of the Arabian plate, western Iran, and central Iran’s Lut block ( Figures 2 - 4 ). The Precambrian tectonic history of the Turkish (Anatolia) and the Levant plates is poorly understood; however, these two plates may have accreted against the Midyan terrane and northeastern Egypt along...

...Khalid Al-Ramadan; Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah; Dave Cantrell; Peter K. Swart Abstract The early Miocene Wadi Waqb carbonate in the Midyan Peninsula, NE Red Sea is of great interest not only because of its importance as an archive of one of the few pre-salt synrift carbonate platforms in the world...

...Figure 2: Schematic reconstruction of the accretionary evolution of the Arabian Plate. By 715 Ma, the Asir, Hijaz and Midyan terranes formed the western part of the Arabian Shield. Between about 680 and 640 Ma the Afif terrane collided with the western Shield along the Nabitah Suture. At about...

... setting of Arabian plate and Red Sea showing the Red Sea rift separating the Arabian and Nubian Shields (image courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_Basin, shared under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License). Postsalt section at the top: this section consists of clastic sediments...

.... They comprise part of a widely distributed Late Cretaceous to Neogene succession deposited in troughs of the Maqnah massif and Ifal Basin in the SE Midyan region between the Gulf of Aqaba and Red Sea ( Remond & Teixido, 1980 ; Clark, 1986 ; Hughes et al . 1999 ; Hughes & Johnson, 2005 ). Clark...