Figure 7: Paleofacies of the Triassic to Jurassic Transition. This time period spanned the deposition of the upper Minjur, Mulussa, and Butmah formations, and their regional equivalents [GSS J10]. Rocks of Hettangian age are generally absent from much of the Arabian Plate as are many of Rhaetian age. Erosion and non-depostion was caused by structural uplift (onset of Mediterranean rifting) combined with a lowstand in sea level. With information from: Andrews (1992a); Guiraud et al. (2001); Hirsch and Picard (1988); Le Nindre, Manivit et al. (1990); Le Métour et al. (1995); Murris (1980); Walley (2001).