Facies variation, depositional setting and hydrocarbon potential of the Upper Cretaceous rocks in the United Arab Emirates

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Alsharhan ◽  
C.G. St. C. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Hydrocarbon Potential ◽  
Facies Variation ◽  
Depositional Setting

Author response for "Upper Cretaceous wedge‐top to foredeep architecture in the United Arab Emirates: Insights from the Faiyah Anticline"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Q. Mohammed ◽  
Sherif Farouk ◽  
Fadhil Lawa ◽  
Mohammad Alsuwaidi ◽  
Sadoon Morad
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Author Response

Tectonique synsedimentaire d'age cretace superieur en Tunisie nord orientale; blocs bascules et reorganisation des aires de subsidence

2000 ◽  
Vol 171 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lahcen Boutib ◽  
Fetheddine Melki ◽  
Fouad Zargouni
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
Half Graben ◽  
Combined Movements ◽  
Basin Floor ◽  
Tunisian Atlas ◽  
Facies Variation ◽  
Regional Tectonics

Abstract Structural analysis of late Cretaceous sequences from the northeastern Tunisian Atlas, led to conclude on an active basin floor instability. Regional tectonics resulted in tilted blocks with a subsidence reorganization, since the Campanian time. These structural movements are controlled both by N140 and N100-120 trending faults. The Turonian-Coniacian and Santonian sequences display lateral thickness and facies variation, due to tectonic activity at that time. During Campanian-Maastrichtian, a reorganization of the main subsidence areas occurred, the early Senonian basins, have been sealed and closed and new half graben basins developed on area which constituted previously palaeohigh structures. These syndepositional deformations are characterized by frequent slumps, synsedimentary tilting materials, sealed normal faults and progressive low angle unconformities. These tilted blocks combined to a subsidence axis migration were induced by a NE-SW trending extensional regime. This extension which affects the Tunisian margin during the Upper Cretaceous, is related to the Tethyan and Mesogean rifting phase which resulted from the combined movements of the African and European plates.

Hydrocarbon Potential of the Upper Cretaceous Oil Shale in Quseir-Safaga District, Egypt

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Romany Shaker ◽  
Shouhdi E Shalaby ◽  
Tarek Ibrahim Elkewidy ◽  
Mohammed G. Hassan ◽  
Mohammed Said ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Shale ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Hydrocarbon Potential
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