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DOI10.1007/s12517-013-1169-x
Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cyclicity of the Duwi Formation (late Cretaceous) at Abu Tartur plateau, Western Desert of Egypt: evidences for reworking and redeposition
El Ayyat, Abdalla M.
通讯作者El Ayyat, Abdalla M.
来源期刊ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES
ISSN1866-7511
EISSN1866-7538
出版年2015
卷号8期号:1页码:99-124
英文摘要

The Duwi Formation (late Cretaceous) represents the first onset of fully marine conditions and comprises sediments that were confined by a preexisting depression enclosed by the Dakhla uplift in the west and Kharga uplift in the east. The Duwi Formation overlies unconformably the Qusseir Formation and underlies conformably the Dakhla Formation. The Duwi Formation could be subdivided vertically into three remarkable informal lithostratigraphic units. The Duwi Formation comprises a heterogeneous suite of shallow marine rocks (phosphorite, shale, mudstone, marlstone, glauconite, and dolomite). A model has been presented for the mode of phosphorite accumulation. This model includes aspects from both the traditional upwelling phosphogenic model and key elements from the non-upwelling model. The role played by high-energy events (e.g., internal waves) in phosphorite accumulation was achieved by the interplay between the physicochemical and hydrodynamical processes. Internal waves are thought to be the triggering mechanism for the density flows. Internal waves and induced bottom currents are sporadic but strong enough to bring sediments into suspension. Accumulation of phosphorites by high-energy waves is evidenced by the predominance of many types of bedform sequences. Such type of bedforms are represented by fining upward, firm grounds, erosive pockets and pot holes, planar lags, imbrication, sorting, and fragmentation. The Duwi Formation has been divided into several meter-scale cycles of three types (gradual, non-gradual, and truncated). This represents the higher frequency sea-level fluctuations forming shallowing-upward cycles that were arranged into the larger regressive megasequence during a third-order sea level change.


英文关键词Abu Tartur Phosphorites Black shales Paleogeography Internal waves Cyclicity
类型Article
语种英语
国家Egypt
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000348108300009
WOS关键词CARBONATE CYCLES ; INTERNAL WAVES ; NORTH-AFRICA ; METER-SCALE ; DEPOSITS ; PHOSPHORITES ; PLATFORM ; SYSTEM ; PHOSPHOGENESIS ; ACCUMULATION
WOS类目Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Geology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/185862
作者单位(1)Assiut Univ, Dept Geol, Fac Sci, Assiut 71516, Egypt
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El Ayyat, Abdalla M.. Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cyclicity of the Duwi Formation (late Cretaceous) at Abu Tartur plateau, Western Desert of Egypt: evidences for reworking and redeposition[J],2015,8(1):99-124.
APA El Ayyat, Abdalla M..(2015).Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cyclicity of the Duwi Formation (late Cretaceous) at Abu Tartur plateau, Western Desert of Egypt: evidences for reworking and redeposition.ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES,8(1),99-124.
MLA El Ayyat, Abdalla M.."Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology, and cyclicity of the Duwi Formation (late Cretaceous) at Abu Tartur plateau, Western Desert of Egypt: evidences for reworking and redeposition".ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES 8.1(2015):99-124.
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