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=== Mineral and hydrocarbon deposits === The Kimmeridge Clay and equivalents are the major [[source rock]] for the [[North Sea oil]].<ref name="USGS">{{Cite web|last=Gautier D.L.|year=2005|title=Kimmeridgian Shales Total Petroleum System of the North Sea Graben Province|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2204/c/pdf/B2204C.pdf|access-date=2 November 2018|publisher=United States Geological Survey}}</ref> The Arabian Intrashelf Basin, deposited during the Middle and Late Jurassic, is the setting of the world's largest oil reserves, including the [[Ghawar Field]], the world's largest oil field.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wilson|first=A. O.|date=2020|title=Chapter 1 Introduction to the Jurassic Arabian Intrashelf Basin|journal=Geological Society, London, Memoirs|language=en|volume=53|issue=1|pages=1β19|doi=10.1144/M53.1|s2cid=226967035|issn=0435-4052|doi-access=free}}</ref> The Jurassic-aged Sargelu<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Abdula|first=Rzger A.|date=August 2015|title=Hydrocarbon potential of Sargelu Formation and oil-source correlation, Iraqi Kurdistan|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12517-014-1651-0|journal=Arabian Journal of Geosciences|language=en|volume=8|issue=8|pages=5845β5868|doi=10.1007/s12517-014-1651-0|bibcode=2015ArJG....8.5845A |s2cid=129120960|issn=1866-7511}}</ref> and Naokelekan formations<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Soran University|last2=Abdula|first2=Rzger A.|date=2016-10-16|title=Source Rock Assessment of Naokelekan Formation in Iraqi Kurdistan|journal=Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani β Part A|volume=19|issue=1|pages=103β124|doi=10.17656/jzs.10589|doi-access=free}}</ref> are major source rocks for [[Oil reserves in Iraq|oil in Iraq]]. Over 1500 gigatons of Jurassic coal reserves are found in north-west China, primarily in the [[Turpan Depression|Turpan-Hami Basin]] and the [[Ordos Plateau|Ordos Basin]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ao|first1=Weihua|last2=Huang|first2=Wenhui|last3=Weng|first3=Chengmin|last4=Xiao|first4=Xiuling|last5=Liu|first5=Dameng|last6=Tang|first6=Xiuyi|last7=Chen|first7=Ping|last8=Zhao|first8=Zhigen|last9=Wan|first9=Huan|last10=Finkelman|first10=Robert B.|date=January 2012|title=Coal petrology and genesis of Jurassic coal in the Ordos Basin, China|journal=Geoscience Frontiers|language=en|volume=3|issue=1|pages=85β95|doi=10.1016/j.gsf.2011.09.004|bibcode=2012GeoFr...3...85A |doi-access=free}}</ref>
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