Zonal Stratigraphy and Foraminifera of the Tethyan Jurassic (East Mediterranean)

This unique monograph establishes a zonal subdivision for Syrian Jurassic deposits within the Lias-Tithonian stratigraphy interval based on the detailed study of the evolution and development of foraminiferal assemblages. The book describes the most complete and representataive Jurassic sections in Anti-Lebanon, the coastal mountains, Kurd-Dag and Palmyrides. Careful analysis of foraminiferal asssemblages reveals their composition, structure, temporal evolution, and spatial distribution in various structural facies zones of Syria, and also identifies eight stages and two megaphases of Jurassic foraminifera evolution. The study of generic regions of foraminifera in the Eastern Mediterranean, South-Western Europe and North Africa suggests that the territory of Syria in the Jurassic period was the centre of the creation and distribution of foraminiferal benthic asssemblages. Thus the Arabian subprovince can be distinguished as an independent paleobiochore in the African-Mediterranean Tethys Province.