Abstract
The Upper Jurassic Jubaila Formation in central Saudi Arabia exhibits laterally coeval environments from the southwest to the northeast. These coeval environments involve inner, mid-, and outer ramps. The inner ramp occurs at the Al Haddar section in the extreme southwest and consists of mixed clastic-carbonate facies and are represented by intercalations of ferruginous calcareous quartz arenite, ferruginous sublitharenite, and burrowed dolomicrite. In the mid-ramp setting, there were changes from lateral facies in the Riyadh and the Wadi Huraymila areas to carbonates characterized by sandy lime-mudstones, dolosparie, peloidal olitic packstones, and coralline bioclastic wackestones to packstones. These are intercalated with sandy lime-mudstones that might be deposited in highly agitated environments. The outer-ramp setting occurred in the farther northeast Al Uyaynah area. It is characterized by reduced thickness and is composed of lime-mudstones, dolomitic marls, and pelletal bioclastic wackestones with thin beds of dolomitic marls. The lateral and vertical microfacies distribution in the Jubaila Formation are arranged vertically into four 3rd-order cycles that are correlate laterally overall the studied area, which are overprinted by oscillations in eustatic sea-level during the deposition of Jubaila Formation.