By: rkohrs
Image: Chuck Bailey ⧉
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 18 Jan 2019
Last Updated: 25 Mar 2020

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View to the north-northwest from the crest of the Murri Anticline in northern Oman. Wadi Bani Ghafir cuts a deep gorge through the anticlinal ridge in the foreground which is underlain by autochthonous shallow marine carbonates of Cretaceous age. The anticline is overlain, both the the east and west, by mélange, exotic limestone blocks, and ophiolite (the rugged brown terrain) which originally formed as oceanic mantle. The ophiolite was obducted and thrust over the carbonate rocks.