Karastic features associated with unconformity surfaces, a case study from the United Arab Emirates

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-312

  El Sayed, Mohamed I ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Celestite; Faiyah; Gypcretes; Hafit; Karst; Malaqet; Silcretes

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; KARSTIFICATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); UNCONFORMITY;

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 0034542240     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2000.0669     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Stromatolites and gypsum mounds from hypersaline lagoons of El-Alamein, northern Egypt. M.E.R.C. Ain Shams University
2. Introduction
3. Origin of unconformity-bound celestite mineralization, Jabal Hafit, Al Ain area, United Arab Emirates. M.E.R.C., Ain Shams University
4. The structural and sedimentological setting of the Quarternary deposits in A1-Ain area, U.A.E.
5. An overview of silicification of Post-Pleistocene landscapes of southern Kuwait, Arabian Gulf
6. Gypcrete of Kuwait: Field investigation, petrography and genesis
7. Duricrust and karst products in and around Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
8. Recent celestine from the sediments of the Trucial Coast of the Persian Gulf
9. A study of the texture and composition of chert
10. Geology of the Oman Mountains. Parts 1-3
11. Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in United Arab Emirates. M.E.R.C. Ain Shams University
12. Stratigraphy of the Paleogene succession of Jabal Malaqet, west of Northern Oman Mountains. U.A.E. University
13. Chronology of fluctuating sea level since the Triasic
14. Void filling deposits in karst terrains of isolated oceanic islands: A case study from Tertiary carbonates of the Cayman Islands
15. Two hundred million years of karst history, Dachstein Limestone, Hungary
16. An inclusion hourglass pattern in synthetic gypsum
17. Maastrichtian to early Tertiary stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Central and Northern Oman Mountains
18. Contribution a l'etude des croute et encroutements gypseux de nappe dans le sud-tunisien. Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M.
19. Pedogenic columnar calcite from the Oolite Group (Lower Carboniferous), South Wales
20. Sedimentological and structural evolution of the Arabian continental margin in the Musandam Mountains and Dibba zone, United Arab Emirates
21. The Maastrichtian transgression onto the northwestern flank of the Proto-Oman Mountains: Sequences of rudist-bearing beach to open shelf facies
22. Petrography and diagenesis of silcrete from the Kalahari Basin and Cape Coastal zone, Southern Africa
23. Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level
24. Synchronous deformation of the neoautchthonous sediment of the Northern Oman Mountains
25. Evolution of gypsum karst in the kirschberg evaporite member near Fredericksburg, Texas
26. Structure, chemistry and origins of gypsum crusts in southern Tunisia and the central Namib Desert
27. Desert gypsum crusts as palaeoenvironmental indicators: A micropetrographic study of crusts from southern Tunisia and the central Namib Desert
28. Displacive calcite: Evidence from recent and ancient calcretes
29. Silica in soils: Quartz, cristobalaite, tridymite and opal
30. Silica diagenesis, 1. Solubility control
31. A Terra Rossa-like paleosol complex from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal