About This Item

Share This Item

The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Abstract

 

Journal of Petroleum Geology, vol. 19 (3), July 1996, pp. 271-288
©Copyright 1996. Scientific Press, U.K. All rights reserved.

STRATIGRAPHIC AND LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UPPER CRETACEOUS CARBONATES IN CENTRAL IRAQ

F. N. Sadooni*

Shallow-marine carbonates were deposited in Central Iraq during the Late Campanian-Maastrichtian. These carbonates consist of foraminiferal-shoal and bryozoan-algal-rudist bank deposits, separated by argillaceous, oligosteginal wackestones and mudstones. The build-ups are believed to have developed on block faulted topographic highs, while marly limestones were deposited in the intervening basinal lows. Based on facies analysis and log characteristics, these sediments are here divided into eight lithostratigraphic units.

Pay-Per-View Purchase Options

The article is available through a document delivery service. Explain these Purchase Options.

Watermarked PDF Document: $14
Open PDF Document: $24