Mantle xenolith-bearing Maastrichtian to Tertiary alkaline magmatism in Oman

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Gnos, E ^a   Peters, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Extensional tectonics; Indian ocean; Mineralogy; Oman; Volcanic rocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748433988     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000229     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Al-Harthy, M. S., R. G. Coleman, M. W. Hughes-Clarke, and S. S. Hanna, Tertiary basaltic intrusions in the Central Oman Mountains, in Ophiolite Genesis and the Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere, edited by T. Peters, A. Nicolas, and R. G. Colemen, pp. 675-682, Kluwer Acad., Norwell, Mass., 1991.
2. Allemann, F., and T. Peters, The ophiolite-radiolarite belt of the North-Oman Mountains, Ecologae Geol. Helv., 65, 657-697, 1972.
3. Béchennec, F., J. Roger, S. Chevrel, and J. Le Métour, Explanatory notes to geological map of Al Ashkharah, Sheet NF 40-112, scale 1:250'000, Oman Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1992.
4. Carbon, D., Tectonique post-obduction des montagnes d'Oman dans le cadre de la convergence Arabie-Iran, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, 1996.
5. Courtillot, V., C. Jaupart, I. Manighetti, P. Tapponnier, and J. Besse, On causal links between flood basalts and continental breakup, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 166, 177-195, 1999.
6. Dubreuilh, J. F., A. Béchennec, J. Berthiaux, J. P. Le Métour, J. Platel, J. Roger, and R. Wyns, Geological map of Khaluf, sheet NF 40-115, scale 1:250'000, Sultanate of Oman, Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1992a.
7. Dubreuilh, J., J. P. Platel, J. Le Métour, J. Roger, R. Wyns, F. Béchennec, and A. Berthiaux, Explanatory notes, Geological map of Khaluf, sheet NF 40-115, scale 1:250'000, Oman Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1992b.
8. Filbrandt, J. B., S. C. Nolan, and A. C. Ries, Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary evolution of Jebel Ja'alan and adjacent areas, NE Oman, in Geology and Tectonics of the Oman Region, edited by A. H. F. Robertson, M. P. Searle, and A. C. Ries, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 49, 697-714, 1991.
9. Glazner, A. F., and J. M. Bartley, Eruption of alkali basalts during crustal shortening in southern California, Tectonics, 13, 493-498, 1994.
10. Glennie, K. W., M. G. A. Boeuf, M. W. Hughes-Clark, M. Moody-Stuart, W. F. H. Pilar, and B. M. Reinhardt, Geology of the Oman Mountains, vol.31, 423 pp., Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Nederlands Geol. Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap, 1974.
11. Gnos, E., and M. Perrin, Formation and evolution of the Masirah ophiolite constrained by paleomagnetic study of volcanic rocks, Tectonophysics, 253, 53-64, 1995.
12. Gnos, E., A. Immenhauser, and T. Peters, Late Cretaceous/ Early Tertiary convergence between the Indian and Arabian plates recorded in ophiolites and related sediments, Tectonophysics, 271, 1-19, 1997.
13. Gnos, E., M. Khan, K. Mahmood, A. S. Khan, N. A. Shafique, and I. M. Villa, Bela oceanic lithosphere asemblage and its relation to the Réunion hotspot, Terra Nova, 10, 90-95, 1998.
14. Hacker, B., J. Mosenfelder, and E. Gnos, Rapid emplacement of the Oman ophiolite: Thermal and geochronological considerations, Tectonics, 15, 1230-1247, 1996.
15. Hauser, M., The allochthonous sedimentary and volcanic rock record from the Batain plain (Sultanate of Oman), Ph.D. thesis, Bern Univ., Bern, Switzerland, 2000.
16. Immenhauser, A., G. Schreurs, T. Peters, A.Matter, M. Hauser, and P. Dumitrica, Stratigraphy, sedimentology and depositional environments of the Permian to uppermost Cretaceous Batain Group, eastern-Oman, Eclogae Geol. Helv., 91, 217-235, 1998.
17. Immenhauser, A., G. Schreurs, E. Gnos, H. W. Oterdoom, and B. Hartmann, Late Palaeozoic to Neogene geodynamic evolution of the northeastern Oman margin, Geol. Magazine, 137, 1-18, 2000.
18. Le Maitre, R. W., et al., Classification of igneous rocks and glossary of terms, Blackwell Sci., Malden, Mass., 1989.
19. Le Métour, J. F., F. Béchennec, J. Roger, and S. Chevrel, Geological map of Al Ashkharah, sheet NF 40-112, scale 1:250'000, with explanatory notes, Sultanate of Oman, Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1992.
20. Morimoto, N., J. Fabries, A. K. Ferguson, I. V. Ginzburg, M. Ross, F. A. Seifert, J. Zussman, K. Aoki, and G. Gottardi, Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 68, 95-111, 1988.
21. Moser, L., The Ruwaydah Unit; Volcanic and limestone deposits of a dismembered seamount, MS thesis, Bern Univ., Bern, Switzerland, 2000.
22. Mountain, G. S., and W. L. Prell, A multiphase plate tectonic history of the southeast continental margin of Oman, in The Geology and Tectonics of the the Oman Region, edited by A. H. F. Robertson, M. P. Searle, and A. C. Ries, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 49, 725-744, 1990.
23. Oterdoom, H., M. A. Worthing, and M. Partington, Petrological and tectonostratigraphic evidence for a mid Ordovizian rift pulse on the Arabian Peninsula, Geoarabia, 4, 467-500, 1999.
24. Peters, T., M.Al-Batashy, H.Bläsi, M.Hauser, A. Immenhasuer, L. Moser, and A. Al Rajhi, Geological map of Sur and Al Askharah, sheet NF 40-8F and sheet 40-12C, scale 1:100'000, with explanatory notes, Directorate General of Minerals, Minist. of Comm. and Ind., Muscat, Oman, 2001.
25. Philpotts, A. R., Silicate liquid immiscibility: Its probable extent and petrologic significance, Am. J. Sci., 276, 1147-1177, 1976.
26. Philpotts, A. R., Compositions of immiscible liquids in volcanic rocks, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 80, 201-218, 1982.
27. Robertson, A. H. F., C. D. Blome, D. W. J. Cooper, A. E. S. Kemp, and M. P. Searle, Evolution of the Arabian continental margin in the Dibba Zone, Northern Oman Mountains, in The Geology and Tectonics of the Oman Region, edited by A. H. F. Robertson, M. P. Searle, and A. C. Ries, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 49, 251-258, 1990.
28. 2, Am. Mineral., 36, 282-286, 1951.
29. Schreurs, G., and A. Immenhauser, West-northwest directed obduction of the Batain Group on the eastern Oman continental margin at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Tectonics, 18, 148-160, 1999.
30. Shackleton, R. M., et al., The Batain Melange of NE Oman, in Geology and Tectonics of the Oman Region, edited by A. H. F. Robertson, M. P. Searle, and A. C. Ries, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 49, 673-696, 1990.
31. Würsten, F., M. Flisch, I. Michalski, J. Le Métour, I. Mercolli, U. Matthäus, and T. Peters, The uplift history of the Precambrian crystalline basement of the Jabal J'alan (Sur area), in Ophiolite Genesis and the Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere, edited by T. Peters, A. Nicolas, and R. G. Colemen, pp. 613-626, Kluwer Acad., Norwell, Mass., 1991.
32. Wyns, R., F. Béchennec, J. Le Mé tour, J. Roger, and S. Chevrel, Explanatory notes, Geological map of Sur, sheet NF 40-08, scale 1:250'000, Sultanate of Oman, Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1-103, 1992a.
33. Wyns, R., F. Béchennec, J. Le Mé tour, J. Roger, and S. Chevrel, Geological map of Sur, sheet NF 40-08, scale 1:250,0000, with explanatory notes, Directorate General of Minerals, Oman Minist. of Petrol. and Miner., Muscat, 1992b.