Team Members: Hodairi, Al-Yaseri, andHartshorne

Borda
Locality: Sandstone core
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Date: Section: Formation (Top Depth - Base Depth)

Profile Lithology Sorting Depth Primary Structures Biogenic Structures Fossils Description Interpretation

Clay Silt VF F M C VC Poorly

ModeratelyGood (ft)

3353

cross-bedding

3354
sand

ripples

3355

ripples
X
sand X climbing ripples Very fine sandstone, moderately sorted, common in climbing ripples
X 3356

ripples

3357
X
sand X climbing ripples Very fine sandstone, moderately sorted, common in climbing ripples
X

3358 Vertical transitions between sand and mud flat facies

are common in our core. Each transition represents a
ripples change in energy level and sedimentation rate
associated with tidal flat progradation and retreat.
X Frequently flooded areas of the upper intertidal flat
X
are represented by the occurrence of thinly bedded
sand X 3359 climbing ripples Very fine sandstone, moderately sorted, common in climbing ripples
fine sandstone and mudstone (lenticular bedding).
X
However, flaser, wavy, and lenticular
beddings are characteristics of intertidal flat
depositional environment. The fine sandstone beds
ripples
are deposited during periods of current activity and
3360
mudstone beds during slack water periods. This
alternating bedding is mostly related to the
alternation of tidal current and slack water phases
X (Reineck and Wunderlich, 1967a, b; 1969). The
sand X climbing ripples Very fine sandstone, moderately sorted, common in climbinglenticular
ripples bedding developed due to the formation of
X 3361 and some dicontinuous shaly bedding. incomplete sand or silt ripples on muddy substratum
(Reineck & Singh, 1975), the formation of these
structures requires conditions of current or wave
action depositing sand or silt alternating with slack
water conditions for the deposition of mud; the most
suitable environments are the subtidal and intertidal
3362 zones (Reineck and Singh, 1975). Whereas, within
ripples these zones, changes take place between slack water
parallel lamination and turbulent water, and sediment supply is good
(Abdul Hadi, 2001).

3363

3364

3365

3366

ripples
Thinly bedded fine parallel lamination
sandstone and mudstone 3367

3368

3369

3369.8

3370
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LAVA

igneous

fabric_1

fabric_2

fabric_3

fabric_4

cross lamination

Flaser_Bedding

Lens_Structure

Herring_Bone

wave_ripple

scour surface with parrallel infill

scour surface

fault

plant debris

imbrication

fossil

convoluted bedding

channel

ripple cross lamination

bioturbation

fossiliferous

rock type alternation

Plant remains

sand/mud flake filled channel

channel with fine grained infill

Local unconformity within heterolithic unit

loadcasting structure

Burrows

Ophiomora

concretions

slumping

sandball

Cemented grains

Thrust Fault

Chert cement

dolomitic limestone

calcareous dolomite

salt hoppers

dark chert

dolomitic lens

extrusive/intrusive rock

dolomite cement

chalk

quartz cement

chevron fold

geopetal fabric

stromatactis

climbing cross bedding

cone in cone structure

boudinage, ball and flow structures

festoon cross bedding

breccia solution collapse

dissolution, compaction structures

bored surface

bored

organism tracks and trails

plant root tubes

vertebrate tracks

pull apart structure

birdseye, fenestral fabric

tepee structure

organism produced--churned marking

organism produced marking--burrow

parting lineation

striation

scour and fill

flute cast

groove cast

pull-over flame structure

nodular bedding

graded bedding

planar bedding

stylolite

salt hopper or cast

irregular bedding

vadose silt

vadoes pissolite

Slickenside

fractures

ripple marks

breccia, tectonic

Air escape structure

climbing ripples