Pakistan Journal of Geology (PJG)

Journal: Pakistan Journal of Geology (PJG)
Author: Haidar Salim Anan

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DOI: 10.26480/pjg.01.2025.62.68

The diagnostic episode of tectonic activity in combination with sea-level fall after the latest Danian event (around the Danian/Selandian or Danian/Thanetian transition) was recognized and recorded from many parts of the Southern Tethys: Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and United Arab Emirates (UAE). This episode is named here the ‘angulata Event’. This event is represented by glauconitic bed in Sidi Nasseur and Tajérouine of Tunisia, or non-depositional sediments (or eroded after deposition) in Abu Zenima section (Sinai) and Jiran El Ful section, west Cairo of Egypt, and also Tell Burma and Wadi Arab sections of Jordan, or intraformational conglomeratic bed in Malaqet section of UAE. The studied latest Danian event (angulata Event) in the study areas exhibits many lateral and vertical facies changes and regional pattern to the relation between litho- and biostratigraphic boundaries across the Danian/Selandian (D/S) in Tunisia, but Danian/Thanetian (D/T) succession in Egypt, Jordan and UAE. Two new species are added to the recorded assemblage: Morozovella arabiana and Morozovella tunisica. This event is the second Paleogene event of Anan, after the global “pentacamerata Event’ around the Ypresian-Lutetian (Y-L) transition in the world.