The Ordovician-Lower Silurian siliciclastics deposited on the Jordanian Platform represent a transitional sedimentary system between their granitoid Gondwana source area and the Paleo-Tethys. While fluvial fining upward cycles (FUCs) of quartz arenite dominate braid plain deltas/upper shore face environments of the Lower Ordovician, arkosic tempestite and oxygen-deficient bituminous pelite/tuffite cycles cover upper/lower shore face environments…
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