Figure 16: Paleofacies of the Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene spanning deposition of the Shiranish, Gurpi, Aruma, Simsima, and Fiqa formations, and their regional equivalents [MFS K150 to intra-Pg10]. The sediments were deposited within a compressive foreland basin setting following onset of mid-Turonian ophiolite obduction along the eastern margin of the Plate. With information from: Andrews (1992b); Azzam (1995); Béchennec et al. (1995); Cater and Gillcrist (1994); Ellis et al. (1996); Filbrandt et al. (1990); Gilmour and Mäkel (1996); Guiraud and Bosworth (1997); Hirsch (1990); Koop and Stoneley (1982); Litak et al. (1997); Murris (1980); Nolan et al. (1990); Ponikarov et al. (1966); de Ruiter and Lovelock (1995); Roger et al. (1989); Sawaf and Tarek (1996); Walley (1998b); and unpublished Saudi Aramco Miscellaneous Report 913 (W.J. Koop, 1982).