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Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia

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Title Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia
 
Creator El-Sorogy, Abdelbaset
Youssef, Mohamed
Al-Sabrouty, Mohamed
Al-Otaiby, Naif
 
Subject Mollusca
Pleistocene
Coral reefs
Red Sea coast
Saudi Arabia
 
Description 1571-1580
Facies patterns within the Late Pleistocene raised coral reefs at Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia exhibit lateral and vertical changes. It starts in the east with a fossil shore and ends in the west with sediments
of reef slope at the present shoreline. Vertical pattern shows a transgressive sequence. In the present work 35 gastropod
and 16 pelecypod species belonging
to 30 families
and 37 genera have been identified. Biogeographic distribution of the studied species
indicated that most of the recorded
species are belonged to Indo-Pacific affinity with a very few Atlantic-Mediterranean. Their geologic range extent to Oligocene
age.
 
Date 2016-06-27T12:33:10Z
2016-06-27T12:33:10Z
2014-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34516
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(8) [August 2014]