Stratigraphic significance of heavy minerals in the Late Precambrian-Mesozoic clastic sequence (“Nubian Sandstone”) in the Near East

Elemental chemistry as a tool of stratigraphic correlation: A case study involving lower Paleozoic Wajid, Saq, and Qasim formations in Saudi Arabia

“…Babalola (1999) and Hussain et al (2004) also concluded that most likely provenances of the lower part of the Wajid Sandstone are dominantly the acid igneous and gneissic metamorphic rocks of the Neoproterozoic Afif, Abas, Al-Bayda, Al-Mahfid, and Al-Mukalla terranes (Windley et al (1996) to the south. Heavy mineral data of the Cambrian section of southern Israel and Jordan (Weissbrod and Nachmias, 1986;Amireh, 1991) are rich in stable heavy mineral assemblage of zircon-rutile-tourmaline suggesting long-distance (over 1000 km, Garfunkel, 1999) transportation.…”

Tracing end-member fluid sources in sub-surface iron mineralization and dolomitization along a proximal fault to the dead sea transform

“…Eshet (ME), and the Eshet Dome (ED). 5554 main sediment source for the Nubian sequences (Weissbrod and Nachmias, 1986;Garfunkel, 1999).…”

Subsurface Triassic Sediments in Jordan: Stratigraphic and Depositional Characteristics, and Hydrocarbon Potential

“…No detailed lithologic-petrographic analysis of the sandstones has yet been published. However, it is generally agreed, from the correlation of heavy mineral assemblages, that they were derived from the Arabian Shield to the south (Druckman, 1974;Bandel and Khoury, 1981;Weissbrod and Nachmias, 1986).…”

“…Sequence 2 is equivalent to the Ra'af Formation in Israel (Weissbrod, 1969;Bandel and Khoury, 198 1 ;and Bandel and Waksmundzki, 1985), which is composed of biomicrites and biosparites containing echinoids, brachiopods, molluscs and fragments of foraminifera.…”