Period

Epoch

Quennell

[65]

Bender

[61] [62]

Thickness

(m)

Tertiary

and Quaternary

Pleistocene Holocene Pliocene-Eocene

Basalts, unconsolidated sediments, mudflats, Lisan marl, fluviatile gravel, and infill wadi.

Upper

Cretaceous

Santorian- Coniacian

Belqa

Chert-Limestone

Silicified Limestone

180

20 - 100

(Not exposed)

Turonian

Ajlune

Massive Limestone

10 - 128

Cenomanian

Echinoidal Limestone

300

Nadular Limestone

300

Lower Cretaceous

Albian

Aptian Neocomian

Kurnub

Vari-Coloured Sandstone

330

Jurassic/Triassic

Zerqa

500