AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 90 (2006), Program Abstracts (Digital)

7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition
Manama, Bahrain
March 27-29, 2006

ABSTRACT: Probable Unayzah-a (Early-Middle Permian) Eolian Outcrops, Southwestern Saudi Arabia

A. Kent Norton¹ and Michael L. Hulver²
¹ Area Exploration Department, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, 31311, Saudi Arabia, phone: 966 03 873 2366, [email protected]
² Regional Mapping & Special Studies, Saudi Aramco, P.O. Box 9279, Dhahran, 31311, Saudi Arabia

Recent field reconnaissance work in the Wajid area of southwestern Saudi Arabia has identified a sequence of sandstones stratigraphically located between early Permian Juwayl Formation diamictites and upper Permian Khuff Formation interpreted as early to middle Permian Unayzah-A equivalent eolian sandstones. Recognition of this thin (5-10 meters) interval is critical in expanding the southwestern limit of the existing Unayzah -A Reservoir dune fairway established in Central and Eastern Saudi Arabia.