Maps, diagrams and photographs of the algal mats (cyanobactia intertidal flats) and sabkha evaporites of the Abu Dhabi Coast, UAE

ABU DHABI COAST PHOTO/IMAGE GALLERY

Maps, diagrams and photographs of the Abu Dhabi Coast, UAE
Christopher Kendall
1/1/2004
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Coastal Carbonate & Evaporite Settings
kendall@sc.edu

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101 Polygonal mat Zone	102 Transition from polygons to crinkled mats	103 Crinkled Mat & Section	104 Transition to Crinkles	105 Crinkles over gypsum mush

106 Anhydrite Polygons	107 Anhydrite Polygons	108 Gypsum to Anydrite over peat	109 Anydrite after Gypsum Peat	110 Halite Polygons

111 Halite Saucers	112 Halite Crust	113 Halite Hopper Crystals	114 Halite Hopper Crystals Core	115 Anhydite Diapir

116 Anhydrite Nodule Tubes	117 Anhydrite Gastropod	118 Core of Gypsum & Algal Peat	119 Cyanobacteria Peat Microtome	120 Beach Ridge Block Diagram

121 Beach Ridge Cerithid Beach Ridge	122 Douglas Shearman Landward of Beach ridges Anhydrite Saucers	123 Anhydrite Landward of Beachridge	124 Anhydrite inverting to gypsum	125 Anhydrite inverts to gypsum

126 Gypsum after anhydrite	127 Gypsum Crystal	128 Pleistocene Miliolite Evans Scale	129 Stokes deflation Surface of Pleistoncene Aeolianite	130 Aeoliian Pleistocene 0verlain by Marine Dhabaiya

131 Barchan Dunes South of Abu Dhabi Sabkha	132 Barchan Dunes South of Abu Dhabi Sabkha	133 Barchan Dunes Al Ain	134 Barchan Dunes Al Ain	135 Barchan Dunes Liwa (GPButlerPhoto)

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