Fold Friday: Chevron Folds of Northeastern Oman
Another weekly edition of Fold Friday, highlighting impressive chevron folding at the Batain coast of northeastern Oman.
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We travel this week for Fold Friday to Oman, where ancient sediments formed during Pangaea’s rule create stunning chevron-folded geology.
In previous renditions of Fold Friday, we analyzed similar styles of folding on the island of Crete, Greece, and at Millook Haven in the UK. You can find those articles below. You also can check out the rest of the series (exclusively for paid subscribers!!) on my website here.
The chevron folds this week are on the Batain coast in northeastern Oman and part of the Wahrah Formation: a subdivision of the larger Batain Group.
The coast of Oman is confined between the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
The coast range here is dominated by a fold-and-thrust belt of rocks made of oceanic crust and sediments that were uplifted onto the greater Arabian Peninsula roughly 65 million years ago.
Rocks part of the Batain Group record intraplate (within a single tectonic plate, and not on a margin) extension attributed to the opening of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and thrusting from the collision of Arabia with Eurasia.
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