Holocene Barrier and Lagoon


Arabian Peninsula Map Arabian Peninsula Persian Gulf Arabian Gulf (Purser Persian Gulf Bloom South Arabian Gulf UAE Facies Coast East and West of Dha Khor al Bazam UAE Morphology of Khor Al Bazam Coast North Abu al Abyad Reef Dhubaiya Reefs and Tidal Deltas Dhubaiya Reef Dhubaiya Micro Atolls Dhubaiya Reef Blue Holes Jananah and Salaha Reef Shelf Halat al Baharani TidalDeltaandDunes Halat Al Bahrani Megaripples off Halat al Bahrani Al Bahrani Island High Energy windward ooid forming shoal Indigenous Cormorants (Lawha AbuDhabi East of Al Bahrani Island East of Al Bahrani Island pure ooid shoals East of Al Bahrani Island and pure ooid shoals (high tide) Reef Abu Dhabi Tidal Channel Abu Dhabi West Abu Dhabi Island and Lagoon West AbuDhabi Lagoon Sadaiyat Tidal Delta Angled Bars and Algal Mat Quala Bay Quala Bay Hills of Tertiary Quala Quala Bay Grapestone Quala Bay Pellets Quala Bay Foraminfera Peneropolid Quala Bay Foraminfera altered to Pellet Quala Bay Beach Rock Beach Angled Bars and Mats Mirfa Angled Bars East of Mirfa angled bars of grapestone and bioclastic sands collecting on the coastal terrace. Note the cyanobacterial mats collecting to the lea of the spits Ras Al Aish Angled Bars Dagallah Beaches Jebel Dhanna East Beaches Map Jebel Dhanna Localities West Jebel Dhanna J.Dhanna Detailed Map of Spit Bay J.Dhanna Travertine and Beach Rock Beach Rock J.Dhanna Travertine Beach Rock J.Dhanna Travertine Beach Rock J.Dhanna Travertine Beach Rock J.Dhanna Coated Grains Beach J.Dhanna Beach J.Dhanna West Dhabiyah Isles Khor al Bazam Extreme East Khor Al Bazam Map West Dhabiya Isles Khor al Bazam Dhabaiyah Turn off (Note spe Dhabaiyah Turn and Restaurant (Mat Dhabaiyah Turn and Restaurant (Mata Mangrove Creek Marawah Beach Dhabaiya Mangrove and Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Mangrove and Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Mangroves and Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Mangroves and Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Dunes Halophytes and Crab Burrows Dhabaiya Dunes Halophytes and Cyanobacteria mats Dhabaiya Dunes Halophytes and Beach Rocks Marawah Marawah Mangrove Beach Marawah Mangrove Creek and Mound with Caynaobacteria and Halophytes Abu Dhabi Crab Burrows in creek bank Abu Dhabi Mangrove

Abu Dhabi Western UAE Coastal Photos and Images

Maps, diagrams and photographs of the Abu Dhabi (UAE) coastal sabkhas with their evaporite assemblages of anhydrite, gypsum, and dolomite, their flanking cyanobacterial (algal) flats, seaward ooid shoals, barrier islands and reefs taken by Christopher Kendall.  This gallery is linked to a guide to the Holocene shallow water carbonates and supratidal evaporite tract that lines the southern coastal embayment of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
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