Age Event

Mid-Permian to Early Jurassic Opening of Neo-Tethys, Northeast

(255-182 Ma) Extension and Passive Margin Post-Rift
API Event

Following the Hercynian uplift during the

Late Carboniferous and early Permian
major changes' in basin' geometry
occurred late' Permian time in Iraq.
Formations
AP
1- Late Permian-Mid Triassic
Sequence
a- Chia Zairi Formation

b-Mirga Mir Formation

c- Beduh Formation
2-
Deposition Thickness
Deposited on the N and E facing passive
3000m
margin of the Arabian Plate.
Enivronment Notes

shallow inner shelf lagoonal sea,

Lithology Thickness Depositional Enivronment

The lower member (Darari) : thin bedded

organic detrital limestone, with black
shale beds near the base. The Satina
deposited in a transgressive neritic
Evaporite Member: dolomite, and
sea on a broad carbonate platform
recrystallisation breccias. The upper
member (Zinnar): thin bedded organic
detrital, limestone
750-810m
thin bedded grey and yellow argillaceous lagoonal conditions
limestone and shale 200m
Economic