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6 A Lithostratigraphic Correlation Chart—A Model Type/North Africa
Fig. 6.19 A simplified Lithostratigraphic Log in Morgan Oil Field, (Metwalli et al. 1978)
that prevents the oil migration of the underlying El-Morgan, Bakr, and Gharib offshore, as well as Belayim and Karim formations updip at the the Belayim onshore oil fields. The topmost memEl-Morgan oil field. ber is known as the Belayim clastics, which are (c) Belayim formation—Is about 1,000 ft (∼333 m) collectively known as the Belayim evaporites. in thickness, consists of evaporates and intere- (d) Kareem formation—Attains a thickness of about vaporite marls. It is oil producing in many fields 1,400 ft (∼400 m) at the El-Morgan field and in the Gulf of Suez petroleum province, e.g., the is composed of calcareous arkosic sandstone