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Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins: The Arabian Plate and Analogues

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Khalid Al Hosani

    1. Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  2. Francois Roure

    1. Géologie-Géochimie-Géophysique, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

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  3. Richard Ellison

    1. ritish Geological Survey (BGS), Kingsley Dunham Centre, Nottingham, UK

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  4. Stephen Lokier

    1. Earth Sciences, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  • Individual chapters from various Middle East countries, including the UAE, Yemen, Oman Range, Iran Zagros and Makkran
  • First results of deep seismic sounding across the Oman Range in the UAE
  • Sixth successful conference of the Task Force on Sedimentary Basins
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Frontiers in Earth Sciences (FRONTIERS)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Emirati Foreland and Foothills

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of Abu Dhabi in the Context of Arabia

      • Ken W. Glennie
      Pages 3-21

    3. Architecture of the Oman–UAE Ophiolite: Evidence for a Multi-Phase Magmatic History

      • K. M. Goodenough, M. T. Styles, D. Schofield, R. J. Thomas, Q. C. Crowley, R. M. Lilly et al.
      Pages 23-42

    4. New Constrains on the Thickness of the Semail Ophiolite in the Northern Emirates

      • Charles Naville, Martine Ancel, Paul Andriessen, Patrice Ricarte, François Roure
      Pages 43-59

    5. The Jurassic–Cretaceous depositional and tectonic evolution of the southernwestern margin of the Neotethys Ocean, Northern Oman and United Arab Emirates

      • Emrys R. Phillips, Colin N. Waters, Richard A. Ellison
      Pages 61-100

    6. Forced Folding of the Neoautochthonous Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary Sequence at the Western End of the Hatta Zone, Northern Oman Mountains

      • M. Warrak
      Pages 101-125

    7. Seismic stratigraphy and subsidence history of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rifted margin and overlying foreland basins

      • M. Y. Ali, A. B. Watts, M. P. Searle
      Pages 127-143

    8. Depth seismic imaging using reflection and first arrival traveltime tomography: Application to a deep profile across the Northern Emirates Foothills

      • Anne Jardin, Karine Broto, Timothée Perdrizet
      Pages 145-158

    9. Forward Kinematic Modelling of a Regional Transect in the Northern Emirates Using Geological and Apatite Fission Track Age Constraints on Paleo-Burial History

      • Mihai Tarapoanca, Paul Andriessen, Karine Broto, Louis Chérel, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmermann, Jean-Luc Faure et al.
      Pages 159-175

    10. Paleo-Fluids Characterisation and Fluid Flow Modelling Along a Regional Transect in Northern United Arab Emirates (UAE)

      • Jean-Paul Callot, Liesbeth Breesch, Nicole Guilhaumou, François Roure, Rudy Swennen, Nadège Vilasi
      Pages 177-201

    11. Diagenesis of the Khuff Formation (Permian–Triassic), Northern United Arab Emirates

      • Simone Fontana, Fadi H. Nader, Sadoon Morad, Andrea Ceriani, Ihsan S. Al-Aasm
      Pages 203-220

  3. The Zagros and Makran tectonic wedges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Evidence for Mantle Exhumation Along the Arabian Margin in the Zagros (Kermanshah Area, Iran)

      • Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau, Jean-Claude Ringenbach, Saeid Tavakoli, Geoffrey M. H. Ruiz, Pierre Masse, Dominique Frizon de Lamotte
      Pages 223-237

    3. structural style of the Makran Tertiary accretionary complex in SE-Iran

      • J.-P. Burg, A. Dolati, D. Bernoulli, J. Smit
      Pages 239-259

    4. Preliminary fault analysis and paleostress evolution in the Makran Fold-and-Thrust Belt in Iran

      • A. Dolati, J.-P Burg
      Pages 261-277

  4. Seismic hazards in Saudi Arabia and adjacent Parts of the Arabian Plate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Improvement of seismicity parameters in the Arabian Shield and Platform using earthquake location and magnitude calibration

      • A. M. Al-Amri, A. J. Rodgers
      Pages 281-293

    3. Seismotectonics and seismogenic source zones of the Arabian Platform

      • Abdullah M. Al-Amri
      Pages 295-316

    4. Seismic zones regionalization and hazard assessment of SW Arabian Shield and Southern Red Sea Region

      • M. A. Al-Malki, A. M. Al-Amri
      Pages 317-331
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About this book

This book will constitute the proceedings of the ILP Workshop held in Abu Dhabi in December 2009. It will include a reprint of the 11 papers published in the December 2010 issue of the AJGS, together with 11 other original papers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Khalid Al Hosani

  • Géologie-Géochimie-Géophysique, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    Francois Roure

  • ritish Geological Survey (BGS), Kingsley Dunham Centre, Nottingham, UK

    Richard Ellison

  • Earth Sciences, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Stephen Lokier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lithosphere Dynamics and Sedimentary Basins: The Arabian Plate and Analogues

  • Editors: Khalid Al Hosani, Francois Roure, Richard Ellison, Stephen Lokier

  • Series Title: Frontiers in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30609-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29278-1Published: 14 September 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50730-8Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30609-9Published: 14 September 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1863-4621

  • Series E-ISSN: 1863-463X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 474

  • Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 228 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general

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