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Regional Geology The Arabian Shield

Regional Geology The Arabian Shield. The Earth. Slice cut in the Earth. The Arabian Plate. Arabian Plate tectonic setting. The Dead Sea Aqaba Fault. Aqaba Strike-Slip Fault. Fault. Dead Sea. The Arabian Gulf. The Arabian Gulf. Folds (Domes).

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Regional Geology The Arabian Shield

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  1. Regional GeologyThe Arabian Shield

  2. The Earth

  3. Slice cut in the Earth

  4. The Arabian Plate

  5. Arabian Plate tectonic setting

  6. The Dead Sea Aqaba Fault

  7. Aqaba Strike-Slip Fault Fault Dead Sea

  8. The Arabian Gulf The Arabian Gulf Folds (Domes)

  9. Trends of Stress Regimes within the Arabian Plate ZAGROSS STRESS OMAN STRESS Strain Ellipses for Zagros and Oman Stress Regimes

  10. Geology of Saudi Arabia

  11. Arabian Nubian Shield

  12. Bowen’s Reaction Series

  13. Jeddah, Makkah and Taif Taif Jeddah Al-Hada Makkah

  14. Arabian Shield

  15. Makkah-Taif Road

  16. Makkah-Taif Road

  17. Makkah Al-Taif Road

  18. Makkah-Taif Road

  19. Sill

  20. Sills

  21. Dikes

  22. Dikes filling fractures

  23. Dikes

  24. Dikes and Veins

  25. Fractures and Dikes

  26. Dikes Intrusions

  27. Xenolith

  28. Dikes and Sills

  29. Meta-sediments

  30. Metamorphic RocksFoliation and Lineation

  31. Breccias

  32. Evolution of the Arabian Shield

  33. Ophiolite Belts in The Arabian Shield

  34. The Arabian Shield

  35. Pillow Lava

  36. Pillow Lava

  37. Five Microplates

  38. RED SEA AND HARRAT

  39. Topography of the Red Sea

  40. Crater

  41. Crater

  42. Volcanic vent

  43. Relationship of the Arabian Shield to the overlying Sedimentary Formations

  44. Non-ConformityContact between Precambrian and Phanerozoic rocks

  45. Non-ConformityContact between Precambrian and Phanerozoic rocks

  46. Wajeed Sandstones

  47. Gondwana

  48. Horst and Graben

  49. Cross Section of The Arabian Plate

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