The vertical section a carbonate beach sediment expresses Walther's Law ("Facies adjacent to one another in a continuous vertical sequence also accumulated adjacent to one another laterally"). This association is used in conjunction with stacking patterns of sediments and their associated sedimentary structures to interpret and so determine the depositional setting of the these clastic sediments. Similar associations are associated with clastics.

As indicated the figure above is applicable to the carbonate Outcrop Exercises on high frequency carbonate parasequences. Note the hierarchy of sedimentary structures and their association, from seaward to landward, with the different depositional systems.  These are not too different from the clastic shoreline of Coe et al, (2003).

However this association for the immediate offshore UAE can be represented in the areas to the lea of the shore butidal flat.  See block diagram below.

In the past in the Lower Jurassic of Kuwait,  for instance, the  lagoonal facies may terminate the fill of the shoreline sections.  See below.