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Wadi,
MAASTRICHTIAN
Deposits
Section
Napo
system
STRUCTURAL
�oyhoh
Anticline
track
UNCONFORMITY
rood
Oumayroh
formation
Formation
Straiigraphic
drainage
SETTING
/
GEOLOGY
The Oman Mountains are a major collisional moun­
tain belt which formed in late Cretaceous time in
thrust
Semail
response
to
sheets
Arabian carbonate platform margin
Ophiolite,
(nappes)
convergent
comprised
of
tectonics along
rocks
the
Fig. 2. Map showing the major structural elements of the Wadi Qumayrah study area and the location of measured
of
1981; Searle et al., 1983). A number of allochthonous
Tethys Sea (Glennie, 1974; Gealey, 1977; Coleman,
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South
the
the Hawasina Complex and the