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Dhofar and the Frankincense Coast

2019; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-18453-7_15

2364-6497

M. P. Searle,

Geological and Geochemical Analysis

The southern province of Oman, Dhofar is bounded by the Indian Ocean along the south, the Yemen border in the west and the great sandsea of the Rub al-Khali or Empty Quarter to the north (Fig. 15.1). The coastal region of Dhofar is dominated by the strike-slip faults along the Arabian plate margin. The transform faulted margin was initiated in Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous time when the African and Arabian plate separated from the India–Madagascar–Seychelles plate.