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Integrated facies analysis of the Late Cretaceous Simsima Formation in northwestern Oman mountain, Jabel Al-Rawdah, Hatta area, Oman
The Late Cretaceous Simsima Formation is a post-obduction mixed carbonate–sliciclastic sequence exposed in isolated outcrops in the Oman Mountains....
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Aflaj–aquifer interconnectivity in northern Oman, revealed from geochemical and isotopic composition of aflaj waters
The aflaj system in Oman is an ancient irrigation network that delivers water supply to the local population, using gravity transport from the...
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Geotourism in the Sultanate of Oman: Samail Ophiolite Geosites–A Concept of Sustainable Geotourism
Geotourism is a form of natural area tourism that focuses on geology and natural heritage of the land. Geoconservation and geological heritage are...
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Dynamics of the oceanic dike–gabbro transition revealed by petrology and geochemistry of the Yunzhug ophiolite, central Tibet
The dynamics and magma transport at the boundary between the upper and lower oceanic crusts (i.e., the dike–gabbro transition) are crucial for...
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Lithofacies Associations and Depositional System of the Muti Formation, Oman Mountains
The Upper Cretaceous Muti Formation of the Aruma Group was the first unit deposited in the Oman foreland basin in the Oman Mountains. The Oman...
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Melting geodynamics reveals a subduction origin for the Purang ophiolite, Tibet, China
The debate regarding whether the Yarlung–Zangbo ophiolite (YZO) on the south of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, formed in a mid-ocean ridge (MOR) or a...
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PGE geochemistry and platinum-group minerals in chromitites from Indus Suture Zone ophiolite, northwest Himalaya, India
AbstractPodiform chromitites, a part of Nidar ophiolite complex from the Indus Suture Zone (ISZ), southeast Ladakh, host significant platinum-group...
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Early–Middle Jurassic metamorphic and non-metamorphic supra-subduction zone ophiolite fragments in a Late Cretaceous ophiolitic mélange (northern Turkey): implications for long-lived and supra-subduction zone ophiolite formation
The Late Cretaceous accretionary complexes along the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan (IAE) Neo-Tethyan suture zone in northern Turkey record the...
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Musandam peninsula evolution, structural styles, and petroleum implications: new insights from surface and subsurface data from northern Oman Mountains (UAE, Ras Al Khaimah)
The Musandam peninsula (northern part of the Oman thrust-and-fold belt), although flanked by a foreland basin rich in petroleum resources, has...
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Pyroxenite–harzburgite sequences in the Dazhuqu ophiolite (Southern Tibet) formed through hydrous melt infiltration and melt–peridotite reaction
Pyroxenite veins are commonly observed in the mantle section of ophiolites, reflecting a variety of melts that percolate through the mantle, react,...
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Oxygen Isotope Composition of the Silicate Minerals and Chrome Ores in the Guleman Ophiolite in Southeastern Türkiye
AbstractOxygen crystallising was obtained from olivine, chromite separates from host rock samples, and gabbro from ultramafic cumulates, harzburgite,...
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Fire-set mining in an ancient lead mine: Khaf Al Laasif, Al ‘Āmrāt, Oman
Khaf Al Laasif is a small (about 100-m long) old mine in the vicinity of Muscat, Oman, with traces of copper and lead. On the contrary to most of the...
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The reflectance spectroscopy of ultramafic rocks from the Nagaland Ophiolite Complex, NE India: Convergence of spectroscopic and petrological analyses
The mafic–ultramafic cumulate rocks and mantle peridotites of an ophiolite are excellent recorders of the geodynamic evolution of a fossil subduction...
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Resistivity and Seismic Refraction for Solving Groundwater-Related Problems: A Case Study from North Oman
Geophysical methods are very widely used for groundwater exploration and characterization. In Sultanate Oman, with the increasing demand for...
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Geology and petrogenesis of gabbro from the Zhob Ophiolite, Balochistan, Pakistan
The Zhob Ophiolite, Balochistan, Pakistan, comprises imbricated thrust sheets of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. The sedimentary units...
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Multi-stage melt impregnation and magma–seawater interaction in a slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere: constraints from cumulates in the Lagkorco ophiolite (central Tibet)
Although seismic and hydrothermal data show evidence of magma–seawater interaction in slow spreading-rate ridges, such a process has been rarely...
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Post-oligocene Tectono-Eustatic Fluctuations and Their Influence on the Stratigraphy of Eastern Arabia: The Fars Group of the Batina Coast, Oman
The Fars Group of the Batina Coast of North Oman lies unconformably over Oligocene Asmari Formation (also known as MAM reefs). The group occurs along...
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Ophiolite Complexes in Iran
Ophiolite rocks of Iran are very significant due to the tectonic setting of Iran. So far, several research projects have been conducted at the...
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Clinopyroxene Compositions of the Basalts from the Ashin Ophiolite, Central Iran: New Evidence on Its Supra-Subduction Zone Setting
AbstractThe Ashin ophiolitic mélange is located along the curve of the Doruneh fault system in the western corner of the Central Iranian microplate....
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Hydrothermal metasomatism and solid-phase transfer in petrogenesis of listvenite: the Meso-Tethyan ophiolite, central Tibet, China
In this paper, we present mineralogical, whole-rock geochemical, Sr and Pb isotopic, and zircon trace elemental and U–Pb geochronological data for...
