Authors

Al Maleh Ahmad. Khaled & Radwan Youssef

Published in
5th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April 2004

Abstract

The planktonic foraminifer and coccolith analysis defined the exact age of the studied series as Upper Campanian, whereas it was previously considered as Maestrichtian. The discovered deformational phase and the associated phosphatogenesis, characterizes this part of the northern Coastal Range. The sedimentation milieu's floor here is seemingly shallower and more agitated than the Coastal Range southern parts. We believe that the paleogeographic sedimentation framework at this part of the range reflected an uplifting of the sedimentation milieu's floor, which was syngentically, deformed and fossilized by phosphatic carbonate sedimentation. This imprint of the deformational phase on the northern Coastal Range is most likely linked with precursor regional tectonic phases depicted this area of the northwestern Arabian plate during Upper Campanian, before the Maestrichtian ophiolite obduction. 

Keywords
deformational phase; phosphatogenesis, Qalaat Al Mahalbeh, Coastal Range, Syria

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