Al Rutba Formation , bellowing to the upper Cretaceous, is one the
main formation of the stratigraphical coumn of Euphrate Depression.
It is importance becomes from that it can statute the principle
petroleum reservoir in high member of the depres
sion fields.
Producing oil and the natural gas.
The importance of this group is to be the main reservoir of oil in
various fields of low oil producing natural gas. The present study is
based on subsurface geological data, presented by cores, well logs and
chemical results of the analyses laboratory.
The Petrological study of Clay deposits belonging to the lower
Cretaceous in the northern part of South Palmyra Folding Zone.
Showed they were formed as a result of weathering processes of
igneous rocks within Sedimentary continental climate is ho
t and wet
conditions, and formed lateritic iron soil, followed by enrich,
erosion and washing caused by watery agitate and re-replaced for
short distances within valleys or grooves or local karst cavities, and
later filled by crust erosion materials through the Cretaceous Sea
transgression.
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.