Table 1 Point counting data of the Zakeen and Faraghan formations and concise description of the facies from which samples were selected.

Table 1 (continued)

Q: quartz, F: feldspar, L: lithic.Plane-B: plane-bedded, Cross-B: cross-bedde, Thin-B: thin-bedded, Flaser-B: flaser-bedded.VF. grained: very fine-grained, F. grained: fine-grained, M.grained: medium-grained, C.grained: Coarse-grained, VC. Grained: very coarse-grained.sst.: sandstone, cemtd: cemented.

Table 2 Heavy mineral counting data of the Zakeen, Faraghan and Lalun formations.

Zr: zircon, Tur: tourmaline, Rut: rutile, AP: apatite, Mz: monazite, Ant: anatase, Ati: aaptite-tourmaline index, Rzi: rutile-zircon index, Mzi: mmonazite-zircon index, ZTR: zircon-tourmaline-rutile index.

Table 3Concise description of the facies from which the samples for heavy mineral analysis were selected.

Abreviations are the same as those in table 1.