scholarly journals The Permian-Triassic Khuff Formation of central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Vaslet ◽  
Yves-Michel Le Nindre ◽  
Daniel Vachard ◽  
Jean Broutin ◽  
Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Late Permian ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Closed Basin ◽  
Smaller Foraminifers ◽  
Continental Deposits ◽  
Flooding Event ◽  
Terminal Permian ◽  
Shale Formation

ABSTRACT The Permian-Triassic Khuff Formation crops out in central Saudi Arabia along a N-S belt, some 1,200 km in length. It is 171.4 m (562.2 ft) thick in the type section and divided into five members; from oldest to youngest: Ash Shiqqah (formerly Unayzah member of the Khuff Formation), Huqayl, Duhaysan, Midhnab and Khartam. The base of the Khuff Formation is recognised as a regional unconformity (Pre-Khuff Unconformity), and the top of the formation is defined by the conformable contact with the overlying Sudair Shale. The Ash Shiqqah Member is tentatively dated as ?Middle Permian ?Capitanian (?Midian) based on the presence of the fusulinids Monodiexodina kattaensis and Reichelina sp. The Huqayl Member is tentatively dated as ?Late Permian ?Wuchiapingian (?Dzhulfian) based on an assemblage of smaller foraminifers dominated by Pseudomidiella cf. labensis, Earlandia? spp. and Neodiscus aff. qinglongensis. The Duhaysan Member is dated as Late Permian (Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian) based on Hemigordius baoqingensis, Graecodiscus cf. kotlyarae, “Dentalina” hoi, and Colaniella cf. minuta. The sMidhnab Member is dated as Changhsingian (Dorashamian) based on Paradagmarita sp. and “Glomospirella spirillinoides” and the disappearance of the genera Nankinella and Globivalvulina. Within the continental facies in the upper part of the Midhnab Member, incised channels facies yielded the Late Permian Midhnab Flora. The Lower Khartam Member is also dated as latest Permian (Dorashamian) based on the presence of several species of Paradagmarita and “Nodosaria” dzhulfensis in the lowest beds of the member, and the ostracods Paraparchites spp., Knoxiella spp. and Kloedenellitina sp. throughout the Lower Khartam Member. The Upper Khartam Member is assigned to an Early Triassic (‘Scythian’) age based on the occurrence of the characteristic annelid Spirorbis phlyctaena. The Khuff Formation, in central Saudi Arabian outcrops, consists of four regional depositional sequences (DS PKh, DS PKm, DS PKk and DS TrS), each containing a maximum flooding interval (MFI, with the same designation). The oldest sequence DS PKh (named after Permian-Khuff-Huqayl) consists of the Ash Shiqqah and overlying Huqayl members. The basal sequence boundary corresponds to the Pre-Khuff Unconformity (PKU) and represents the onset of the first Permian flooding event recorded in the outcrops of Saudi Arabia. The massive gypsum, gypsiferous claystone, and solution breccias in the Ash Shiqqah Member are correlated to the subsurface Khuff-D Anhydrite. The MFI PKh is positioned in the basal part of the Huqayl Member, and is followed by the regressive evaporitic palaeoenvironments of the Huqayl Member. The DS PKm (named after Permian-Khuff-Midhnab) starts with the subtidal to littoral deposits of the Duhaysan Member, over an erosive surface upon DS PKh; and ends with the regressive supratidal to continental deposits at the upper part of the Midhnab Member. The MFI PKm is located at the base of the Midhnab Member, where limestones yielded an abundant marine fauna including cephalopods and brachiopods. The terminal Permian DS PKk (Permian-Khuff-Khartam) corresponds to the Lower Khartam Member. The basal SB PKk is marked by a return to marine subtidal conditions after the continental break at the end of DS PKm. The MFI PKk is characterised by marine fauna including abundant Permian ostracods, bactritids, and locally cephalopods. The DS TrS (named after the Sudair Shale Formation) starts with the littoral, tidal to intertidal deposits of the Early Triassic Upper Khartam Member of the Khuff Formation, and ends with the closed basin, clayey to evaporitic rocks of the Early Triassic Sudair Shale.

scholarly journals Nautiloids of the Permian-Triassic Khuff Formation, central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Régis Chirat ◽  
Denis Vaslet ◽  
Yves-Michel Le Nindre
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Late Permian ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Foraminiferal Assemblage ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Flooding Event ◽  
First Time ◽  
Arabian Platform

ABSTRACT Nautiloids are described for the first time from the outcrops of the lower part of the Midhnab Member and the lower part of the Khartam Member of the Khuff Formation in central Saudi Arabia. The nautiloids from the lower Midhnab Member, including Tirolonautilus gr. hoernesi, were found at two localities, and are associated with conical shaped cephalopodes (bactritids), bivalves, brachiopods, foraminifers, algae and ostracods. The nautiloids were recovered from the most marine horizon of the Khuff Formation. The nautiloid fauna confirms the Late Permian (Changhsingian) age assigned to the Midhnab Member based on the foraminiferal assemblage. In the lower part of the Khartam Member, a single specimen of Tirolonautilus feltgeni n. sp. is described here. It occurs in association with other cephalopods (bactritids), bivalves, foraminifers, and ostracods. The specimen confirms the Late Permian age (late Changhsingian) assigned to the Lower Khartam Member based on foraminiferal and ostracod assemblages. This marine fauna is located within the latest Permian maximum flooding event of central Saudi Arabia. The Khuff Formation nautiloids are compared to other fauna in the Peri-Tethys, particularly the southern Alps, where similar forms are described. Their similarity confirms a Late Permian marine exchange between the Arabian platform and the Western Tethyan realm.

scholarly journals Foraminifers and algae from the Khuff Formation (late Middle Permian-Early Triassic) of central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Vachard ◽  
Jérémie Gaillot ◽  
Denis Vaslet ◽  
Yves-Michel Le Nindre
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
South China ◽  
New Age ◽  
Middle Permian ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Late Permian ◽  
Foraminiferal Assemblage ◽  
Smaller Foraminifers ◽  
One New Species

ABSTRACT Algae and smaller foraminifers of the eponymous Khuff Formation (Saudi Arabia) principally comprise Permocalculus, biseriamminids, hemigordiids and lagenids. Due to the end-Capitanian crisis (Late/Middle Permian boundary) and the regional palaeoecology, fusulinids are rare and only represented by Nankinella sp. and Eostaffella? sp. Palaeofusulinids are completely lacking. New age data shows that these foraminifers correspond to the complete Lopingian (Late Permian) as indicated by several species of Paradagmarita. The position of the Triassic/Permian Boundary is approximately characterised, but requires more accurate studies. Forty-three taxa were identified, mostly in open nomenclature. One new species is described: Glomospirella? linae n. sp. The foraminiferal assemblage is correlated with several associations in Iran, Turkey, Transcaucasia and south China.

EARLY CORDILLERAN ARC DEVELOPMENT RECORDED IN LATE PERMIAN AND EARLY TRIASSIC PLUTONS OF THE NORTHERN MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Robinson Cecil ◽  
◽  
Mary Ann Ferrer ◽  
Nancy R. Riggs ◽  
Kathleen M. Marsaglia
Keyword(s):  
Mojave Desert ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Late Permian

Nature and origin of the volcanic ash beds near the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China: new data and their geological implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binsong Zheng ◽  
Chuanlong Mou ◽  
Renjie Zhou ◽  
Xiuping Wang ◽  
Zhaohui Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
South China ◽  
Volcanic Ash ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Late Permian ◽  
Triassic Boundary ◽  
Permian Triassic Boundary

AbstractPermian–Triassic boundary (PTB) volcanic ash beds are widely distributed in South China and were proposed to have a connection with the PTB mass extinction and the assemblage of Pangea. However, their source and tectonic affinity have been highly debated. We present zircon U–Pb ages, trace-element and Hf isotopic data on three new-found PTB volcanic ash beds in the western Hubei area, South China. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry U–Pb dating of zircons yields ages of 252.2 ± 3.6 Ma, 251.6 ± 4.9 Ma and 250.4 ± 2.4 Ma for these three volcanic ash beds. Zircons of age c. 240–270 Ma zircons have negative εHf(t) values (–18.17 to –3.91) and Mesoproterozoic–Palaeoproterozoic two-stage Hf model ages (THf2) (1.33–2.23 Ga). Integrated with other PTB ash beds in South China, zircon trace-element signatures and Hf isotopes indicate that they were likely sourced from intermediate to felsic volcanic centres along the Simao–Indochina convergent continental margin. The Qinling convergent continental margin might be another possible source but needs further investigation. Our data support the model that strong convergent margin volcanism took place around South China during late Permian – Early Triassic time, especially in the Simao–Indochina active continental margin and possibly the Qinling active continental margin. These volcanisms overlap temporally with the PTB biocrisis triggered by the Siberian Large Igneous Province. In addition, our data argue that the South China Craton and the Simao–Indochina block had not been amalgamated with the main body of Pangea by late Permian – Early Triassic time.

Late Jurassic-Late Permian dolomites in central Saudi Arabia: Ca:Mg stoichiometry and Sr-content

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled M. Banat ◽  
Mohammed H. Basyoni ◽  
Rashad H. Zeidan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Late Permian

A new faunistic component of the Lower Triassic Panchet Formation of India increases the continental non-archosauromorph neodiapsid record in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Martín D. Ezcurra ◽  
Saswati Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Kasturi Sen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Lower Triassic ◽  
Maximum Height ◽  
Dorsal Margin ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Anterior Portion ◽  
Continental Deposits ◽  
Biotic Recovery ◽  
Patterns And Processes ◽  
Permian Mass Extinction

Abstract The fossil record of Early Triassic diapsids is very important to understand how the end-Permian mass extinction affected ecosystems and the patterns and processes involved in the subsequent biotic recovery. Vertebrate fossil assemblages of continental deposits in current-day South Africa, China, and Russia are the best source of information of this clade during the aftermath of the extinction event. Although considerably less sampled, the Induan continental rocks of the Panchet Formation of the Damodar Basin (eastern India) have also yielded a relatively diverse vertebrate assemblage composed of fishes, temnospondyls, synapsids, and a single proterosuchid taxon. Here, we report on a small isolated diapsid partial ilium (ISIR 1132) from the upper Panchet Formation. This specimen has a distinct morphology compared to other tetrapods that we know, including a shallow emargination on the dorsal margin of the anterior portion of the iliac blade, and ratio between height of iliac blade versus maximum height of iliac acetabulum at level of the dorsalmost extension of supraacetabular crest ≤0.45. Comparisons and a quantitative phylogenetic analysis found ISIR 1132 as a non-archosauromorph neodiapsid. This new specimen expands the reptile diversity in the Panchet Formation as well as for the rest of Gondwana, where Early Triassic non-archosauromorph neodiapsid species are extremely scarce.

scholarly journals Final-Stage Magmatic Record of Paleo-Asian Oceanic Subduction? Insights from Late Permian to Early Triassic Intrusive Rocks in the Yanbian Area, Easternmost Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Franz Neubauer ◽  
Zheng-Hong Liu ◽  
Fang-Hua Cui ◽  
Qing-Bin Guan
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Granitic Rocks ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Late Permian ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Subduction Setting ◽  
T Values

This paper reports new zircon LA–ICP–MS U–Pb and Hf isotope data, and whole-rock major and trace element data for Late Permian to Early Triassic intrusive rocks in the Yanbian area, NE China. These data provide new insights into the timing of the final subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean beneath the North China Craton. The zircon U–Pb age data indicate that a suite of Late Permian to Early Triassic intrusive rocks related to subduction is present within the Yanbian area. The Late Permian intrusive rocks consist of diorites while the Early Triassic granites and hornblende gabbros constitute a geochemically bimodal igneous rock association. Furthermore, the Early Triassic granites show the geochemical characteristics of shoshonitic rocks. All the rocks are characterized by enrichment in LILEs and LREEs, and depletion in HREEs and HFSEs, suggesting they formed in a subduction setting. Zircons from the Early Triassic gabbros have εHf(t) values and TDM2 ages of +7.6 to +10.7 and 735–1022 Ma, respectively, suggesting that they formed from a primary magma generated by the partial melting of lithospheric mantle material that had been previously modified by subduction-related fluids. The Late Permian diorites have εHf(t) values and TDM2 ages of +0.5 to +9.5 and 853 to 1669 Ma, respectively, while they have high contents of Al2O3, Fe2O3, and low contents of SiO2, Cr, and Ni, indicating Late Permian diorites should derive from the mantle and are influenced by some crustal material. Early Triassic granitic rocks have a wide range of εHf(t) values and TDM2 ages of −4.8 to +9.4 and 852 to 2136 Ma, respectively. Their zircons imply that the Early Triassic granites could be mainly derived from partial melting of the crust, with minor contribution of the crustal material of an ancient crust. The Early Triassic bimodal intrusive rocks in Yanbian area, combined with the regional geologic information; therefore, record a final post-subduction extensional environment due to the break-off of the previously subducted slab.

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