The Jurassic litho-biostratigraphy is reviewed and Jurassic depositional models are defined in order to clarify some regional stratigraphic uncertainties and to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of the Jurassic of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A thick succession of Triassic-Cretaceous shallow-marine carbonates is exposed in Wadi Naqab, southeast of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE, Musandam Peninsula. The Jurassic, 1310 m thick, is examined using biostratigraphy, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy and compared with the Abu Dhabi subsurface. Direct composition of the Jurassic foraminiferal biozones and algal assemblages can be made between Wadi Naqab and the South-Tethyan realm. Palynological data from the subsurface demonstrate that much of the Liassic, which is well represented in the Musandam Peninsula, is missing over most of the Emirates. A ca. 50 Ma time gap was defined within the Abu Dhabi clastic Minjur Formation (previously assigned to the Triassic). The age of the palynoflora of the upper Minjur is Bajocian, while the lower Minjur yielded Late Carnian palynomorphs. The Upper Toarcian and most of the Aalenian is also probably missing in the Musandam Peninsula, as in the subsurface of the Emirates and Saudi Arabia. A new Bajocian foraminifera <I>Pseudodictyopsella jurassica</I>, n. gen., n. sp., was recognised, and the inception of some stromatoporoids was earlier than previously thought. The Liassic of Wadi Naqab is dominantly a metre-scale 5^th-order Milankovitch-driven succession composed of peritidal cycles. Cycle tops are commonly marked by corrosion zones and/or karsts. Stacked paleokarsts are found particularly in the Sinemurian and Lower Pliensbachian. In Wadi Naqab, the Middle and Upper Jurassic seem to comprise one shallowing-upward 3^rd-order cycle built of abundant 5^th-order cycles. As a result of comparisons in this study, the Bajocian Izhara Formation is redefined and a new type-section proposed. Most of the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian are absent in Wadi Naqab, and eastern onshore and offshore Abu Dhabi, as the result of uplift and erosion before deposition of the Lower Cretaceous. Possible major Jurassic (Liassic-Early Kimmeridgian) hydrocarbon plays of Abu Dhabi are: the Marrat lowstand wedge of eastern onshore, the Jurassic onlap of Triassic high blocks in offshore areas, the Minjur lowstand clastics, the offshore Uweinat and Upper Araej and the Upper Jurassic Hadriya and Hanifa reservoirs.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Rhode Island. / Bibliography: leaves 60-70.

The Calama and eastern Pampa del Tamarugal Basins are located between 22°S and 23°S within the forearc of northern Chile. They are filled by sediments deposited in alluvial braidplain, fluvial, playa sandflat, lacustrine and volcaniclastic environments under a semi-arid to hyper-arid climate. The nature of the alluvial braidplain depositional environment is unusual in that it combines elements of both alluvial fan and fluvial depositional systems, in contradiction to recently published models of alluvial fan sedimentation. Detailed sedimentary logging, magnetostratigraphy and dating of 14 volcanic interbeds by the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar laser fusion method has established a lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic framework for the 700 m thick basin-fill. Basin formation was investigated by regional subsidence during the Late Eocene or Early Oligocene, followed by widespread alluvial braidplain deposition during the Oligocene(?). A change to fluvial and playa sandflat deposition during the Early to Mid-Miocene is considered to be coincident with a decrease in active subsidence. Sedimentation ceased and thick (25 m) gypcrete deposits developed along the eastern margin of the basin during the Mid-Miocene as a response to an increasingly arid climate. Phases of minor lacustrine, fluvial and alluvial braidplain deposition during the Late Miocene-Early-Pliocene and the Late Pliocene(?) to Pleistocene were primarily controlled by small-scale fault movements and folding events, although climatic variations may have been important in some cases. A new lithostratigraphic division of the basin-fill is proposed here, which comprises 13 different formations. The previously defined El Loa Formation comprises a number of depositional units which are spatially and temporally discrete formations, and is therefore awarded group status.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1986.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-151). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.) in Quaternary and Climate Studies--University of Maine, 2009. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-63).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1965. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of Earth Sciences, 1991. / "1990". Bibliography: p. 596-630.

Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. 1975. / Typescript. Also available online.