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The Hajar Mountains are the product of polyphase mountain building. Uplift and deformation of the Arabian passive margin began during the late cretaceous as the African-Arabian Plate began to subduct under the South Tethyan Oceanic Plate imitated at an intra oceanic subduction zone. This initiation may have been the result of plate rotation due ...
Geology of Oman. The geology of Oman includes varied landscapes which are a blend of its geological history, and its climate over the past few million years. Rock outcrops in the Hajar, Huqf and Dhofar Mountains are a point of interest for international geologists. The rock record spans about 825 million years and includes at least three ...
The Jebel Akhdar Mountains (Arabic: ٱلْجَبَل ٱلْأَخْضَر, romanized: Al-Jabal Al-Akhḍar, lit. 'The Green Mountain') is a mountain range approximately 80 km (50 mi) long and 32 km (20 mi) wide, [2] that is part Hajar Mountains in Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate of Oman. It rises to a height of 3,018 m (9,902 ft) [1][3] and ...
The Abu Mahara Group (c. 725–<645 Ma) is a geologic group of formations that are spread across northern Oman (Jabal Akhdar), east-central Oman (Huqf area), and southern Oman (Mirbat area of Dhofar). It belongs to the Huqf Supergroup. [1] [2] The group hosts two glacial successions in the Ghubrah and Fiq formations.
Close-up view of a section of the ophiolite. [1] The Samail Ophiolite, also known as the Semail Ophiolite, is a large, ancient geological formation in Oman and the United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Peninsula. [2] It is one of the world's largest and best-exposed segments of oceanic crust, made of volcanic rocks and ultramafic rocks from the ...
South Oman Salt Basin. Categories: Geology by country. Geology of Asia by country. Geology of the Middle East. Geography of Oman. Natural history of Oman. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
The Dhofar Mountains (Arabic: جِبَال ظُفَار, romanized: Jibāl Ẓufār) are a mountain range in the southeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula.In a broad sense, they extend from Dhofar Governorate in Oman to Hadhramaut Governorate in Yemen, and are located between the Hajar in the northern part of Oman, and the Sarawat in the western part of Yemen. [1]
Sims is a National Geographic explorer well known for using his technical mountaineering skills to collect geological samples from remote locations across the globe, including sampling molten magma from lava lakes deep within volcanic craters, collecting temporal sequences of lavas from high, technical ridges on the flanks of the world's tallest volcanoes, and using submersibles to obtain mid ...