ERA PERIOD EPOCH

Age
QUAT Holocene/Pleistocene

MAXIMUM FLOODING SURFACE AP BOUNDARY

JORDAN
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SYRIA
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IRAQ
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KUWAIT
h ud at ain r Bu n ga fra

SAUDI ARABIA RAIN QATAR

f Sa iy an a Be rri tif ali a kh n

BAH-

ABU DHABI
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YEMEN
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PRESERVATION

Az

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Tu

dm

Kh

Ra

a W

Qa

Aw

Du

Sh

Ma
25 E

v v v v v v

Location Map
30 42 N 40 40 50 60 70 42 N

v v v v

v v v v v v v v v

PLIOCENE

Piacenzian Zanclean Messinian

Bakhtiari

? Dibdibba Dibdibba Hofuf ?

Zagros Foredeep

Barzaman

Sarar

v v v

Pontides Anatolia TURKISH PLATE NW Iran

CASPIAN SEA

40

NEOGENE

? Fars Group

Tortonian

MIOCENE

10

v v

v v

v v v v v
15.5 16.3 18.5

10
MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Serravallian Langhian Burdigalian Aquitanian

15.5 16.3 18.5

Fars Group Jebel Cap? Dhiban Jeribe Euphrates Serikagai Euphrates Ibrahim Tarjil
Baba Bajawan Sheikh Alas Shurau

SA

Ng40 Ng30 Ng20 Ng10

NA ND

ALB OR Z
AJ -S IR J

Mishan Dam Dam Gachsaran Dam Sur Taqah Shihr Shihr

v v

v v v v

Ng40 Ng30 Ng20 Ng10

30

LEVANT PLATE

Line of section

AN

CENTRAL IRAN BLOCKS

ZO NE

LUT BLOCK

FARAH BLOCK
30

Hi

20

20

CENOZOIC

AP11
24.5

Anau
Pg50

Azkand

AP11
24.5

ARABIAN PLATE

AFGHAN BLOCK Makran INDIAPAKISTAN PLATE

y rra e Mu idg R
20

OLIGOCENE

Chattian

25

Taiyba
Pg40

Asmari

Asmari

Ma'hm

Taqah

v v v v v v v v v v

25

Pg50

Rupelian

29 30 33 34 35

Jaddala/Pableh

Pabdeh

v v v

PALAEOGENE

Bartonian

Mussawa Mayfalah
v

AFRICAN PLATE

EOCENE

Lutetian

49 50
Ypresian

Pg20

Pabdeh Sediment Truncation Umm Rijam Taqiye Marl

Rus Umm Er Radhuma

Rus Umm Er Radhuma

Rusayl Jafnayn Abat

Rus Jiza Umm Er Radhuma

Majzir

v v v

v v v v v v v v

8N 25 E

No

Wadi Shallala

49 50

Pg20
30 40 50

Ch Rid ain ge

Dammam/Seeb

Group
10

rth Ba Som sin ali

45

AP10

Dammam

Dammam

Habshiyah

Volcanic

45

C a R rlsb id e ge rg
60 70

Ow e

Ma'an

Yemen

AP10

Oil field Gas field

nR

i dg

40

40

Ow e

Priabonian

nB

Pg30

33 34 35

20

asi

Pg30

Dahabkia?

Palani

29 30

Pg40

D RE A SE

INDIAN OCEAN

10 8N

PALAEOCENE

Thanetian Selandian Danian

55 58 60
Pg10

Aaliji (Condensed)

Aaliji

55 58 60 63
Pg10

pre-Cenozoic Unconformity 63 65
Maastrichtian

68 70

Al-Hisa
K180

Muwaqqar

Tayarat Shiranish

Tayarat Qurna Aruma

Simsima

Aruma Shales

Simsima Hassad Fayah

Sharwayn

65 68 70
K180

AP9
75
Campanian

Hazim
K170

Ammam

AP9
Soukhne
S

Hartha Hartha

Fiqa Dabut Hartha Sadi Halul Khasib Sadi Laffan Kifl Mishrif M'sad Mishrif
Fahad

75 78 80
K170

78 80

LATE

R'mah Erek
K160 K150

Mushorah Sadi/Kometan?
S

Safawi

Semail Ophiolite Fiqa/Muti

Santonian Coniacian

85 88 90 92 93 95 98 100 101 105 106 110 111 115 116 120

Hamzah Wadi Umm Gudran Rajil Wadi As Sir Shuayb

85 Tanuma Mukalla Tawilah 88 90 92 93 95 Sufla Fartaq Rays Harshiyat

K160 K150

CRETACEOUS

Turonian

Derro

middle Turonian Unconformity Mishrif Rumaila Ahmadi

Wara

K140 K130 K120 K110 Judea

Cenomanian

Hummar Fuheis Shale

Aljun/Ajlun Aljun/Ajlun Subeihi Albian Limestone Hayyan Judea

M'sad

Mahliban Mishrif

Ruwaydha Tuwayil Shilaif

A B C D E

Lusb

K140 K130

Natih
S

F G

Mauddud Upper Burgan Nahr Umr (undivided)

Upper Rutbah

98 K120 100 101 K110 105 106 K100 110 111

Safaniya
S

Albian

K100

Middle Burgan Lower Burgan Khafji

Kazhdumi

Nahr Umr

Nahr Umr

K90

K90

AP8
K80

Cherrife Kurnub Kurnub Blanche

Lower Rutbah Shu'aiba Aptian Limestone Upper Shu'aiba

late Aptian Unconformity

S

Aptian

Bab Member

Shu'aiba

Shu'aiba

115 116 Qishn

AP8
K80

EARLY

K70 K60 K50

120 K70 Upper Zubair Middle Zubair Lower Zubair Zakum Ratawi Shale Ratawi Limestone late Valanginian Unconformity 3 2 Yamama Minagish Yamama Habshan 1 Rayda Habshan Salil Naifa Late Valanginian unconformity 135 136 K30 138 K20 140 143 K10 Sulaiy Late Jurassic Unconformity
Gotnia Hith
S

Hawar Kharaib Nasr Kharaib 123 K60 125 126 K50 Furt 129 K40 130

Barremian

123 125 126 129 130

Zubair

Middle Lower

Lekhwair

Hauterivian

K40

Valanginian

135 136 138 140 143 145 147 149

150.75 151.25 151.75 152.25

K30 K20

Ryazanian Berriasian
Portlandian

K10

LEGEND
Sandstone Shale Limestone Dolomite Anhydrite Salt
V V

Sulaiy
J110 J100 J90 J70 J80 J60 J50 v v v v v v v v v v

Makhul

Sulaiy

145 147 J110 149

150.75 151.25 151.75 152.25

Maximum Flooding Surface (MFS) Arabian Plate (AP) tectonostratigraphic megasequence (TMS) boundary
S

MESOZOIC

LATE

TithoVolgian nian

Gotnia Najmah
S 1 2

Arab
Hanifa
Jubaila

Arab Jubaila
Hanifa

Asab Diyab
Jubaila Hanifa Hadriya

J100
J90 J80 J70

Oil-prone source rock

Kimmeridgian

Oxfordian

154 155 156 160

Muaddi

Thick Najmah (shoal)

Thin Najmah (basinal)

S

Hadriya 3

Diyab
S

Najmah Naokelekan Muaddi/Mughanniyya

Hanifa Tuwaiq Mountain

S

Jubaila Hanifa Sabatayn Shuqra Upper Dhruma Madbi Kohlan Dhruma

Hanifa Tuwaiq Mountain Upper Araej

Hanifa
S

154 155 156 160 162 165 168

J60 J50

4
S S

Callovian

Tuwaiq Mountain Upper Araej Upper Araej

Volcanics

Preservation = Estimated current preservation of MFS within area of present day sedimentary record 1 = plate-wide preservation = c.>75% coverage 2 = sub-regional preservation = 25%-75% coverage 3 = local preservation = c.<25% coverage

162 165

J40

J40

MIDDLE

Bathonian

AP7
J30

JURASSIC

168 170

Arda/ Azab Hamam Group

Haramoun/ Qamchuqa Ramla

Muhaiwir

Naokelekan
S

Sargelu

Dhruma

Uwainat Lower Araej

late Bathonian-Callovian Hiatus? Lower Araej

AP7

J30

170 Sargelu Dhahab Izhara Dhruma

S

Bajocian

Izhara 175 ? Upper Mafraq

J20

175
Aalenian

J20

Silal 180 182

Toarcian

late Toarcian Unconformity Alan

J10

180 182 185

J10

Marrat Uba'id Mus

B AC D

Marrat

Marrat/ Hamlah

Hamlah?

185

Nimr Zarqa Group

Adaiyah

EARLY

190
Pliensbachian

? ? Lower Mafraq

190

CHRONO-SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE ARABIAN PLATE

0 200 Km 400

195
Sinemurian

195

Sediment Onlap 200 200

Hettangian

205
Rhaetian
Sevatian

? Mulussa F Hussainiyat Butmah

? Mafraq?

205

Vertical scale: 1 cm = 4 million years

210 Abu Ruweis Abu Ruweis

Tr70
Abu Ruweis

Mulussa E Mulussa D

Adaya Hussainiyat Butmah Butma

Mulussa C/ Kurrachine Anhydrite

Upper Minjur Minjur Minjur

210

Alaunian

Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy

215 Tr80 220

LATE

Norian
Lacinian

215

Tr80

220

AP6
Ramtha Group

Mulussa clastics

Baluti Mulussa
S

Lower Minjur Upper Kurra Chine Jilh Jilh Gulailah Gulailah Jilh

AP6

P.R. Sharland, D.M. Casey, R.B. Davies, M.D. Simmons and O.E. Sutcliffe

TRIASSIC

Tuvalian

222 225 226 230 233 235

222 Tr70 225 226 Tr60 230

S

Carnian
Julian Longobardian Fassanian Illyrian
Pelsonian

Zerqa Gypsum Um-Tina

Halite Mulussa B/Kurrachine Dolomite

Lower Kurra Chine Evaporite Lower Kurra Chine Dolomite

Tr60

Ladinian

MIDDLE

Salit
Tr50

Mulussa B

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Upper Geli Khana

233 Tr50 235 238 Tr40 240

Anisian

Hisban 238 240 Hisban Shale Ain Musa

Tr30 Tr20 Tr10 P40 P30 P20 Tr40

Mulussa B

Lower Geli Khana

Upper Sudair?

Bithynian Aegean

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EARLY

Olenekian Induan

Spathian Smithian Dienerian Griesbachian

245 246 247

249.5 250.5 252.5

Amanous Shale/ Mulussa A Amanous Sandstone

S

Beduh Mirga Mir Chia Zairi oolites

Sudair

Sudair Late Permian Unconformity

Sudair

Suwayma

Dar Dur

Ma'in Huwayra Hudayb Group Anjara

245 Tr30 246 Tr20 247 Tr10

249.5 250.5

PERMIAN

PALAEOZOIC

LATE

Tatarian UfimianKazanian Kungurian

Dolaa

P40 P30 P20

Chia Zairi

Satina Evaporite Member

Middle Anhydrite Basal Khuff clastics

Khuff

Khuff

Khuff

252.5

255 257

EARLY

AP5

255 Upper Gharif 257

AP5