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Title Lithosphere dynamics and sedimentary basins : the Arabian Plate and analogues / Khalid Al Hosani [and others], editors
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource : maps (chiefly color)
Series Frontiers in earth sciences, 1863-4621
Frontiers in earth sciences (Springer (Firm))
Contents Part 1. The Emirati foreland and foothills -- Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of Abu Dhabi in the Context of Arabia / Ken W. Glennie -- Architecture of the Oman-UAE Ophiolite: Evidence for a Multi-Phase Magmatic History / K.M. Goodenough, M.T. Styles, D. Schofield, R.J. Thomas and Q.C. Crowley, et al. -- New Constrains on the Thickness of the Semail Ophiolite in the Northern Emirates / Charles Naville, Martine Ancel, Paul Andriessen, Patrice Ricarte and François Roure -- 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 and Richard A. Ellison -- Forced Folding of the Neoautochthonous Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Sequence at the Western End of the Hatta Zone, Northern Oman Mountains / M. Warrak -- Seismic stratigraphy and subsidence history of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rifted margin and overlying foreland basins / M.Y. Ali, A.B. Watts and M.P. Searle -- Depth seismic imaging using reflection and first arrival traveltime tomography: Application to a deep profile across the Northern Emirates Foothills / Anne Jardin, Karine Broto and Timothée Perdrizet -- 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 and Nadine Ellouz-Zimmermann, et al. -- 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 and Rudy Swennen, et al. -- Diagenesis of the Khuff Formation (Permian-Triassic), Northern United Arab Emirates / Simone Fontana, Fadi H. Nader, Sadoon Morad, Andrea Ceriani and Ihsan S. Al-Aasm
Part 2. The Zagros and Makran tectonic wedges -- 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 and Pierre Masse, et al. -- structural style of the Makran Tertiary accretionary complex in SE-Iran / J.-P. Burg, A. Dolati, D. Bernoulli and J. Smit -- Preliminary fault analysis and paleostress evolution in the Makran Fold-and-Thrust Belt in Iran / A. Dolati and J.-P Burg
Part 3. Seismic hazards in Saudi Arabia and adjacent parts of the Arabian plate -- Improvement of seismicity parameters in the Arabian Shield and Platform using earthquake location and magnitude calibration / A.M. Al-Amri and A.J. Rodgers -- Seismotectonics and seismogenic source zones of the Arabian Platform / Abdullah M. Al-Amri -- Seismic zones regionalization and hazard assessment of SW Arabian Shield and Southern Red Sea Region / M.A. Al-Malki and A.M. Al-Amri
Part 4. Yemen margins and the Gulf of Aden -- The Cryogenian Arc formation and successive High-K calc-alkaline plutons of Socotra Island (Yemen) / Y. Denèle, S. Leroy, E. Pelleter, R. Pik and J-Y Talbot, et al. -- Sedimentary basins of Yemen: Their Tectonic Development and Lithostratigraphic Cover / Mustafa Abdullatif As-Saruri, Rasoul Sorkhabi and Rasheed Baraba -- Paleostress Analysis of the Volcanic Margins of Yemen / Khaled Khanbari and Philippe Huchon -- From rifting to oceanic spreading in the Gulf of Aden: A synthesis / Sylvie Leroy, Philippe Razin, Julia Autin, François Bache and Elia d'Acremont, et al. -- Upper mantle anisotropy of Southeast Arabia passive margin [Gulf of Aden Northern conjugate margin], Oman / Ali Al-Lazki, Cindy Ebinger, Michael Kendall, George Helffrich and Sylvie Leroy, et al
Part 5. Geodynamic modelling -- Samovar: A Thermomechanical Code for Modeling of Geodynamic Processes in the Lithosphere--Application to Basin Evolution / Yuriy Elesin, Taras Gerya, Irina M. Artemieva and Hans Thybo
Summary 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
Analysis Geography
Earth Sciences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Lithosphere -- Congresses
Sedimentary basins -- Arabian Peninsula -- Congresses
Geography
geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Sciences de la terre.
Environnement.
Lithosphere
Sedimentary basins
Arabian Peninsula
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Al Hosani, Khalid
ISBN 9783642306099
3642306098