Mike Searle (University of Oxford)
The northern part of the Oman Ophiolite in UAE and Musandam (Oman) show evidence for both Late Cretaceous oceanic subduction, high-temperature granulite metamorphism and thrust emplacement processes beneath the ophiolite, as well as Miocene earliest continent-continent collision processes. We have an ongoing geology – geophysics collaboration between Oxford and the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi involving onshore geology, seismic, gravity and magnetic studies, broadband teleseismic . Seismic reflection and refraction data along 925 km length of new seismic grid was acquired offshore Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf in 2015. We use all these new data to interpret the deep crustal structure of the mountain belt, and gain insights into ophiolite emplacement and continental collision processes.