Microfacies, biofacies, and depositional environments of the Bajocian–Bathonian Middle Dhruma carbonates, central Saudi Arabia

Optimization of the acetic acid method for microfossil extraction from lithified carbonate rocks: Examples from the Jurassic and Miocene limestones of Saudi Arabia

“…The standard method for microscopic investigation of microfossils in most parts of the Middle East has been through the use of polished thin sections, and the vast majority of recently published studies have used them [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] . Thin sections have been extensively used by the petroleum industry to study microfossils, and foraminifera in particular, from the lithified carbonate reservoirs [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] .…”