[HTML][HTML] Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia

S Woor, DSG Thomas, A Parton, A Leenman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Mountain-front fans are an important part of the global sediment system, acting as buffers
and stores of sediment between upland sources and down-system sinks. Fans emanate …

Assessing the robustness of geochronological records from the Arabian Peninsula: A new synthesis of the last 20 ka

S Woor, C Buckland, A Parton, DSG Thomas - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The timing and extent of Late Quaternary climate and environmental changes in the Arabian
Peninsula were critical for human demographic changes. High resolution palaeoclimate …

Oligocene/Early Miocene E/W‐Shortening in the Oman Mountains Related to Oblique Arabia‐India Convergence

A Scharf, F Mattern, R Bolhar, I Callegari, P Mattern… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Field survey, literature review, geological map interpretation, GPlates reconstruction and LA‐
ICP‐MS U‐Pb dating of synkinematic calcite demonstrate that∼ E/W‐shortening in eastern …

A 3-D crustal shear wave velocity model and Moho map below the Semail Ophiolite, eastern Arabia

C Weidle, L Wiesenberg, A El-Sharkawy… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Semail Ophiolite in eastern Arabia is the largest and best-exposed slice of
oceanic lithosphere on land. Detailed knowledge of the tectonic evolution of the shallow …

Postobductional kinematic evolution and geomorphology of a major regional structure—The Semail Gap Fault Zone (Oman Mountains)

A Scharf, F Mattern, D Moraetis, I Callegari… - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Semail Gap/Semail Gap Fault Zone is one of the most prominent tectonic
features in the Oman Mountains and is located between the Jabal Akhdar Dome in the west …

Thermal maturity of the Hawasina units and origin of the Batinah Mélange (Oman Mountains): Insights from clay minerals

L Aldega, E Carminati, A Scharf, F Mattern - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Oman Mountains developed during Cretaceous to Cenozoic time by obduction
of the Semail Ophiolite on top of the Arabian rifted margin. The tectonic pile of the orogenic …

Structure of the offshore obducted Oman margin: Emplacement of Semail ophiolite and role of tectonic inheritance

D Ninkabou, P Agard, C Nielsen, J Smit… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The northern Oman margin is a key area for understanding the emplacement of the Semail
Ophiolite and obduction processes in general. This study uses a grid of 2D‐multichannel …

Uplift dynamics of the obducted northeastern continental margin of the Arabian Peninsula, Sultanate of Oman

K Pavlopoulos, D Moraetis, M Foumelis… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Eustatic sea level changes and vertical tectonic movements are producing uplifted
paleoshorelines. Along subduction zones, uplifted terraces are used to study fault activities …

Post-obduction listwaenite genesis in the Oman Mountains inferred from structural analysis and U-Pb carbonate dating

A Scharf, CM Bailey, R Bolhar, F Mattern… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Listwaenite, a distinctive rock formed by carbonation of peridotite, is important for
understanding carbon fluxes and storage in the deep Earth. In northern Oman, this lithology …

Ophiolites and ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) preserved across the Central Mongolian Microcontinent: a new mega-archive of data for the tectonic evolution of the …

U Khukhuudei, T Kusky, BF Windley, O Otgonbayar… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Following the breakup of Rodinia and the opening of the Paleo-Asian ocean the relative
positions of geological units (now in Mongolia) remain uncertain, and in consequence …