Salt tectonics in the Thumrait area, in the southern part of the South Oman Salt Basin: Implication for mini-basin evolution

GeoArabia

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 77-108

  Al Barwani, Badar ^a   McClay, Ken ^b,c  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Fault Dynamics Research Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CAMBRIAN; DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN; PALEOZOIC; PROGRADATION; PROTEROZOIC; SALT TECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

ARA;

EID: 59249093498     PISSN: 10256059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/geoarabia130477     Document Type: Review

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