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The authors designed and developed this field guidebook and associated posters for field seminars they organised and led in Jabal Nafusa from 2005 to 2009. The aim was to introduce geoscientists working for the petroleum industry to the Mesozoic geology of Jabal Nafusa, of the Jifarah arch, NW Libya.
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Major and trace element data of Jabal Nafusah phonolites are compared with those of other phonolitic provinces: Rhoen, Hegau and Kaiserstuhl (West Germany); Massif Central and Velay (France); and - with data from the literature - Kenyites and other phonolites of Kenya. In this geochemical comparison the character of the Jabal Nafusah phonolites can be specified exactly. Additional new analytical data are given for the elements Nb, U, Th, F, S and Cl. Between Zr, Nb, U and Th there are positive correlations. Plots of Rb versus Nb, and particularly Nb versus Zr reveal "fans", illustrating the individual differentiation trends of the distinct phonolite provinces. A plot on hyperbolic axes brings the data of the diverging fan to a common curve. Each province occupies its own field on this diagram; the Jabal Nafusah phonolites are situated in an extreme position. On triangular plots it can be shown that the Jabal Nafusah phonolites are enriched (relative to other elements) in Al, Na, Fe, Ca, K, Ti, Zr, F, Cl and Th as compared with other phonolitic provinces; but depleted in Mg, S, Nb and P.
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Fossil vertebrates from the Cabao Formation discovered in the area of Nalut in northwestern Libya include the hybodont shark Priohybodus, the crocodilian Sarcosuchus, an abelisaurid, a baryonichine spinosaurid and a large sauropod with spatulate teeth. The Cabao Formation may be Hauterivian to Barremian in age, although an earlier Berriasian to Valanginian age cannot be excluded. Its dinosaur assemblage is reminiscent of that of the El Rhaz and Tiouraren formations of Niger and strongly differs from both the Cenomanian assemblages of Morocco and Egypt and the Late Aptian to Albian fauna of Tunisia. Fossil vertebrates may be an important tool to establish the stratigraphical framework of the poorly dated Early Cretaceous continental deposits of Africa.
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