Ophiolite and Metamorphic Rocks of the Oman Mountains: A Petrographic Atlas

Banded marbles constitute a distinct unit of the Hatta metamorphic sole in the Northern Oman Mountains. The pure and impure marbles were studied petrographic ally and geochemically to determine their geochemical characterstics and decipher the metamorphic history and variations in … Al Hajar Mountains - Wikipedia

Tethyan ophiolites are characteristic of those that occur in the eastern Mediterranean sea area, e.g., Troodos in Cyprus and in the Middle East such as Semail in Oman, which consist of relatively complete rock series corresponding to the classic ophiolite assemblage and which have been emplaced onto a passive continental margin more or less intact (Tethys is the name given to the ancient sea that once …

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The ophiolite is underlain by a sole of amphibolite- to granulite-facies metamorphic rocks that have traditionally been attributed to over-thrusting of the hot ophiolite lithosphere during initial emplacement (Boudier et al., 1988, Hacker et al., 1996); however, peak metamorphic pressures of 11–13 kbar estimated for granulite mineral assemblages in the sole (Cowan et al., 2014, Gnos, 1998

The Semail Ophiolite of the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates is a large slab of oceanic crust, made of volcanic rocks and ultramafic rocks from the Earth's upper mantle, that was overthrust onto continental crust as an ophiolite.