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Middle Jurassic calcareous algae from the circum-Arabian area

Mitteljurassische Kalkalgen aus dem circumarabischen Raum

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Calcareous algae of the Middle Jurassic limestones from Northern Sinai have been investigated in detail with regard to facies and palecology. The aalenian? to Callovian sequence is more than 1000 m thick. It is composed of carbonates, sandstones, siltstones and claystones; all sediments are interpreted as platform margin and extended platform deposits. Oncoids—often composed of skeletal algae—are frequent constituents in many deposits of the protected shelf areas.

This algal flora is compared with algae from Oxfordian limestones of a well in Lebanon and from Aalenian?—Callovian limestones of a well in South Ethiopia. The algal flora consists of 22 taxa of Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta, Rhodophyta and 3 taxa of algae incertae sedis.

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Im Zusammenhang mit faziellen und palökologischen Untersuchungen der mitteljurassischen Kalke des nördlichen Sinai wurde eine detaillierte Bearbeitung der Kalkalgen durchgeführt. Die mehr als 1000 m mächtige Abfolge (Aalenien?—Callovien) umfaßt Karbonate, Sand-, Siltund Tonsteine, die als Plattformrandablagerungen bzw. als Sedimente einer Karbonatplattform interpretiert werden. Onkoide—meist aus skelettragenden Algen zusammengesetzt—sind in den niedrigenergetischen Ablagerungen der geschützten Schelfbereiche häufig.

Diese Algen wurden mit Algenfloren aus Oxford-Kalken einer Bohrung im Libanon, sowie einer Bohrung in Südäthiopien (Aalenien?-Callovien) und mit Beschreibungen jurassischer Kalkalgen von verschiedenen circum-Arabischen Vorkommen verglichen.

Insgesamt wurden 22 Algentaxa beschrieben, die zu den Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta und Rhodophyta gehören; daneben konnten 3 Taxa von algae incertae sedis bestimmt werden.

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Kuss, J. Middle Jurassic calcareous algae from the circum-Arabian area. Facies 22, 59–85 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536945

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