Late eocene biostratigraphy of Jabals Malaqet and Mundassa of Al Ain region, United Arab Emirates

Upper Eocene larger foraminifera from the Dammam Formation in the border region of United Arab Emirates and Oman

“…These occurrences indicate deposition in warm shallow marine inner shelf environments. Similar conlusions have been reported by Cherif et al(1992), Anan (1995) Abdelghany (2002 in the United Arab Emirates and by Racey ( , 1995Racey ( , 2001, White (1994), Jones and Racey (1994) and Bearington-Penney and Racey (2004) in Oman. The expansion of shallow-water depositional settings indicated by these occurrences reflect the eustatic sea-level fall at the end of Turborotalia cerroazulensis, Zone P17, i.e.…”

“…The extension of the Dammam into the Late Eocene was confirmed by the presence of Late Eocene planktonic and benthonic foraminifera in the western Desert of Iraq (Al-Hashimi 1980). As reported by Cherif and El Deeb (1984), Anan et al (1992), Anan (1995) and Abdelghany (2002), the Upper Eocene Mazyad Member consists of an open marine highly fossiliferous marl alternating with thin-bedded limestone. It is dated as early to middle Late Eocene (Priabonian) on the basis of the Globigerinatheka semiinvoluta, P15 and Turborotalia cunialensis/Cribrohantkenina inflata Concurrent Range Zone, P16 (text- fig.6).…”

“…The Upper Eocene part of the Dammam Formation consists of fossiliferous shallow-marine carbonates and covers a large part of the eastern Arabian Peninsula. Upper Eocene sequences along the United Arab Emirates and Oman border, (text- fig.1) have been studied previously by Hunting (1979), Cherif and El-Deeb (1984), Hamdan and Bahr (1992), Anan et al (1992), , White (1994), Jones and Racey (1994), Anan (1995), Whittle et al (1996) and Abdelghany (2002).…”

“…This study enabled Cherif et al (1992) to establish a bathymetric curve for the studied sections which fits with their results and this can be also correlated with the Eustatic curve of Haq et al (1987) for global changes in sea levels. Anan (1995) recorded Cribrohantkenina inflata (Howe) in the Mazyad Member of the uppermost part of the Dammam Formation from the northwestern limb of Jabal Malaqet anticline (text- fig.1). Whittle et al (1996) described the Dammam Formation in Jabal Hafit as representing a continuous sequence from the Early Eocene Rus Formation to the Oligocene Asmari Formation.…”

Middle Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera Inordinatosphaera aff. indica from Jabal Hafit, Al Ain area, United Arab Emirates

“…Berggren (1978), Moore et al (1978), Adams et al (1983) show that the Tethys had been connected with the Indo-Pacific Ocean in the east and with the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Anan (1995) concluded that the Tethyan Realm during the Middle-Late Eocene extends to the southeast and connected with the Indo-Pacific Realm via seaway. Haynes and Nwabufo-Ene (1998) suggested wider Tethyan connections, as far as the Carpathian and Pakistan.…”