Stratigraphic range: Middle Permian (?Capitanian) to early Triassic
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O
S
D
C
P
T
J
K
Pg
N
Type
Geological formation
Unit of
Akhdar Group[1]
Sub-units
From youngest to oldest:[2]
Khartam Member
Midhnab Member
Duhaysan Member
Huqayl Member
Ash Siqqah Member
Underlies
Sudair Formation[1][2]
Overlies
Gharif Formation[1]
Thickness
171.4 m (562.2 ft) (type section)[2]
1,110 m (3,641 ft) (northern Oman)[1]
Location
Region
Middle East
Country
Oman[1]
Saudi Arabia[2]
Type section
Named by
Steineke et. al.[2]
Year defined
1958[2]
The Khuff Formation is a geologic formation in Oman and Saudi Arabia.[1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian and early Triassic periods.[2]
The KhuffFormation is a geologic formation in Oman and Saudi Arabia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian and early Triassic periods. Depending...
successions (the Dehram group in Iran and its lateral equivalent, the Khuffformation), are major gas-producing intervals in these basins. The supergiant...
(Middle Permian) KhuffFormation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman: CHONDRICHTHYANS FROM THE WORDIAN KHUFFFORMATION OF OMAN". Palaeontology...
'Palaeozoic Genus 2', with the newly described Reesodus underwoodi from the KhuffFormation of Oman as the type species. Though the known material is identified...
2013). "A new diverse shark fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) KhuffFormation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman". Palaeontology...
rocky. Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations (the Dukhan anticline) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan...
Devonian are terrestrial sandstone or shale. The Triassic begins with the KhuffFormation shallow water limestone and ascends through 500 m (1,600 ft) of Jurassic...
Some ancient analogs include immediate subsurface formations such as the Permian KhuffFormation, Jurassic Arab and Hith anhydrites, and Tertiary sedimentary...
Moujahed (January 2004). "Depositional sequences of the Gharif and KhuffFormations, subsurface Interior Oman". GeoArabia: 83–147. Alsop, D. B.; Al Ghammari...
(2013). "A new diverse shark fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) KhuffFormation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman". Palaeontology...
Triassic. Shallow water carbonates and evaporites belonging to the KhuffFormation deposited during a marine transgression, with microcrystalline dolomite...
A. P.; Ausich, W. I. (2022). "First crinoid crown from the Permian KhuffFormation (Wordian) of Oman". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 133...
(Middle Permian) KhuffFormation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman: CHONDRICHTHYANS FROM THE WORDIAN KHUFFFORMATION OF OMAN". Palaeontology...
March 1999). "Mid-Permian (Kubergandian-Murgabian) bivalves from the KhuffFormation, Oman: Implications for world events and correlation". Rivista italiana...
Yves-Michel (1 January 2006). "Nautiloids of the Permian-Triassic KhuffFormation, central Saudi Arabia". GeoArabia. 11 (1): 81–92. doi:10.2113/geoarabia110181...
S. (1999). "First Permian Ostracode Fauna from the Arabian Plate (KhuffFormation, Sultanate of Oman)" (PDF). Micropaleontology. 45 (2): 163–182. doi:10...
1016/S0743-9547(05)80015-7. Gaillot, J.; Vachard, D. (2007). "The KhuffFormation (Middle East) and time-equivalents in Turkey and South China: biostratigraphy...
(2013). A new diverse shark fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) KhuffFormation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman. Palaeontology...
followed in 1976 by the first development well in the Khuff reservoir, and from 1978 to 1982 eight Khuff wellhead treatment plants were commissioned. Dukhan...
passed the Tel esh Sheria, the Wadi esh Sheria branched into the Wadi Abu Khuff, then after a short distance eastwards, followed a camel's hump, at first...
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