The Middle and Late Jurassic Intrashelf Basin of the Eastern Arabian Peninsula
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This Memoir provides a thorough regional synthesis of the geology of the rimmed Arabian Intrashelf Basin, reconciling differing interpretations of lithostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy. Variation of energy levels and facies due to its setting in the SE palaeotradewind belt are described. The intrashelf basin formed during rising sea level as a single rimmed carbonate intrashelf basin. A possible global cooling phase resulted in a lowstand which restricted the basin, resulting in petrographically unique carbonate source rock facies dominated by cyanobacterial deposition. Two subsequent third-order carbonate sequences largely filled the basin. Eustatic change concomitant with uplift of the Tethys shelf resulted in alternation of carbonates and evaporites (gypsum-anhydrite) across the region. The end result was a sealed intrashelf basin which preserved early formed porosity and confined generated hydrocarbons within the intrashelf basin facies.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Jurassic Arabian Intrashelf BasinAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 2 Structural development of the Arabian Intrashelf Basin regionAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 3 Lithostratigraphy and depositional characteristics, age dating and sequence stratigraphyAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 4 Depositional geometry at selected locations around the basinAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 5 Interpretation of the origin and evolution of the Arabian Intrashelf Basin and the development of the Dhruma Atash, Tuwaiq and Hanifa sequencesAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 6 Jubaila–Arab–Hith sequencesAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 7 Exploration implicationsAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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Chapter 8 Summary and conclusionsAuthor(s)A. O. WilsonA. O. WilsonSearch for other works by this author on:
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