Paleogeographic Interpretation of Paleozoic Hydrocarbon Systems in the Ghadamis and Murzuq Basins, NW Libya in Relation to the Intervevening Al Qarqaf Arch

P505 PALEOGEOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF PALEOZOIC HYDROCARBON SYSTEMS IN THE GHADAMIS AND MURZUQ BASINS NW LIBYA IN RELATION TO THE INTERVENING AL QARQAF ARCH Y. AL FASATWI 1 P. VAN DIJK 1 and H. DRONKERT 2 1 1 International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences PO Box 6 7500AA Enschede The Netherlands 2 Department of Applied Earth Sciences Delft University of Technology ABSTRACT Al Qarqaf Arch separating the Ghadamis and Murzuq Basins represents an interesting problem in the structural and stratigraphic evolution of North African Basins. The Arch was periodically a high in Early Palaeozoic times and remained as a