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Palynology of the Paleozoic of Saudi Arabia |
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| GeoArabia Special Publication 1 Knowledge of the Palaeozoic biostratigraphy of the Arabian Peninsula, situated close to the northern margin of Gondwana, was poorly known until a joint special project was held by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paléozoïque (CIMP) in 1990. Prior to that only a small number of investigations had been published. Few efforts had been made to exploit the strati-graphic potentials of the many undescribed indigenous microfossils. The joint Saudi Aramco-CIMP project was designed to reverse that situation. Comprehensive studies were carried out on a range of microfossil groups throughout the Palaeozoic and results were published in 1995. The 13 papers presented in this GeoArabia Special Publication update those initial findings. They clearly indicate the potential for these palynomorph assemblages to not only to provide a method for well-to-well correlations within Saudi Arabia, but also for establishing the palaeo-biogeographical relationships of the Arabian Plate relative to adjacent landmasses. The conclusions that are proposed here can now be compared with datasets throughout North Africa and with the central and southern parts of South America.
Editors: Sa’id Al-Hajri and Bernard Owens |
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Published by: For access to the website version of the book contact geoarabi@batelco.com.bh |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
6-7 Introduction 10-17 Sub-surface Palynostratigraphy of
the Palaeozoic of Saudi Arabia 18-41 Palynology of a Problematic Lower
Palaeozoic Lithofacies in the Central Arabian Basin, Saudi Arabia 42-56 Ordovician Chitinozoans from Central
Saudi Arabia 57-81 Characteristics of the Acritarch
Recovery in the Early Silurian of Saudi Arabia 82-91 New Silurian Acritarchs from the
Sub-surface of Northwestern Saudi Arabia 92-115 Cryptospores and Trilete Spores
from the Llandovery, Nuayyim-2 Borehole, Saudi Arabia 116-133 Spore Assemblages from a Silurian
Sequence in Borehole Hawiyah-151 from Saudi Arabia 134-145 Middle to Early Late Devonian Miospore
Biostratigraphy of Saudi Arabia 146-153 Latest Devonian and Early Carboniferous
Miospore Assemblages from Saudi Arabia 154-167 Evidence of Mid-Carboniferous Miospore
Assemblages from Central Saudi Arabia 168-191 Correlation of Carboniferous-Permian
Palynological Assemblages from Oman and Saudi Arabia 192-215 Description and Correlation of
Late Permian Palynological Assemblages from the Khuff Formation,
Saudi Arabia and Evidence for the Duration of the Pre-Khuff Hiatus 216-231 Palynofacies and Orbital Cyclicity:
An example from the Silurian of Saudi Arabia |
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