This research aims to study the sedimentary and palaeogeographic
evolution of the Kurachina Dolomite Formation along Palmyrian belt zone.
Studying this formation in its Northern and Southern parts has shown that it
consists of two lithostratigraph
ic members, where each of them includes a
series of lithological units. The petrological study of the components of these
units shows that they are composed of four distinguished facies: Dolomitic
limestones, clayey limestones, clays and anhydrites, pure or mixed, and
deposited in repeated harmonic layers, gathered mostly in neutral sedimentary
sequences. Dolomitic limestones are the most common and important facies,
they are composed of micrite muds which have been subjected, in different
degrees to synsedimentary or late dolomitisation processes through pumping or
burial mechanisms. Dolomitisation intensity decreases downward the formation
and increases laterally from the south to the north of the Palmyrian chain.
