Pictures: A citizen finds sea snails south of Wadi Al-Dawasir

ArabiaWeather.com- Sabq newspaper published a group of photos of sea snails found by a citizen near the village of Al-Faw, southeast of Wadi Al-Dawasir, on the Wadi Al-Dawasir-Najran road.

The head of the Geology Department at Saud University, Dr. Abdullah Al-Omari, attributed the presence of these snails to the fact that this area is mainly marine, and the snails were found in it after the sea receded from it, indicating that it is not strange that they are in this area, according to the above.

Al-Omari stresses that the entire region was on a sea known as the “Bahr al-Titi,” which then receded to form islands and peninsulas, but its traces remained, adding that Riyadh is full of buried snails, and that this marine environment is considered from the modern era, as it is estimated that Its 30 million years old.

He said that Riyadh was located on the Al-Titi Sea 50 million years ago, and that Jabal Abu Makhrooq is a large shell, pointing out that the more we go east of Riyadh, the newer the rocks, and on the contrary, west of Riyadh, where the rocks are older.

According to Dr. Al-Omari, after the water receded, the antiquities were buried under the sand dunes with 15 meters of sand, among which were the pillared buildings of Eram.

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