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Facies development and sedimentology of the Middle Miocene carbonates of the Raghama Formation,northeastern Saudi Arabia
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Ragahama Formation comprises a siliciclastic continental deposits followed by marine carbonates,rep-resenting prograding alluvial fans from adjacent high hin-terlands seaward into lagoons and fringing reef environments.The present work aimed to document the facies development and sedimentology of the Raghama carbonates exposed along the eastern coastal plain of the Red Sea,northwestern Saudi Arabia.Four stratigraphic sections were measured and sampled(D1-D4)and thin sections and major and trace element analyses were pre-pared and applied for petrographic and geochemical approaches.The carbonates were subdivided into three successive fore-reef,reef-core,and back-reef depositional facies.Sandy stromatolitic boundstone,microbial lami-nites,dolomitic ooidal grainstone,bioclastic coralline algal wackestone,sandy bioclastic wackestone,and coral boundstones were the reported microfacies types.Petro-graphic analysis reveals that the studied carbonates were affected by dissolution,dolomitization,and aggrading recrystallization,which affects both the original micrite matrix and grains or acts as fracture and veinlet filling leading to widespread vuggy and moldic porosity.No evidence of physical compaction,suggesting rapid lithifi-cation and recrystallization during early diagenesis and prior to substantial burial and intensive flushing by mete-oric waters.Most of the original microstructure of corals were leached and destructed.This is indicated by the higher depletion in Sr and Ca levels and increase in Mg,Na,Fe,and Mn levels,especially in section D1,in com-parison with the worldwide carbonates.
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