Depositional Setting of the Jeribe Formation in Selected Subsurface Sections, Northern Iraq

The current research studies the depositional setting of Jeribe Formation in south Mosul area northern Iraq, which is tectonically located Low Folded Zone characterized by deposition limestone and marly during Middle Miocene. Petrography has provided a diversity fauna such as benthonic foraminifera (Miliolid, Peneroplis sp., Dendritina sp. Borelis melo curdica) addition to Red Algae Mollusca. carbonates were affected various diagenetic processes dolomitization, neomorphism, cementation, anhydritization, compaction dissolution. Many microfacies have been identified, including lime mudestone, wackestone, packstone Milioldal grainstone, with eight submicrofacies (Non-Fossiliferous mudstone, Benthonic Fossiliferous Algal packstone, Green packstone). Depending on analysis, was deposited restricted open marine environments within an interior platform setting.