The drawing is from oman geologic heritage aflaj oman in the world heritage list 9. Unesco sultan qaboos prize for environmental conservation 2019. Pdf the oman mountains contain a number of unique and very special geological sites of world heritage importance. Unesco country strategy for the sultanate of oman 20192023.
The modern geological exploration of the omanuae mountains began in earnest in the late 1960s and 1970s. Like its culture, oman s geological heritage has survived relatively intact. The greatest geological feature is the moho, the boundary surface between the earths crust and the earths mantle, which elsewhere is hidden 35 to 70 kilometers beneath the continents, and can only be marvelled at on the surface here in oman. The approximately 700 km long and 40 to 120 km wide oman mountains occupy the northeastern corner of the arabian peninsula, in the zone of convergence between the arabian and eurasian plates. The society provides seminars, lectures, workshops and field trips to a range of. The efforts of the geological society of oman in the conservation of omans. Geological society of oman newsletter syncline camp, huqf, 3rd march 2010 contents presidents message note from the editor field trip report conference announcement preserving oman s geological heritage a bitumen clast from al khlata south wadi and its implications for oil see page on the eastern flank and the fossil record of copepods. Largescale developments in oman and uae have already affected some of these sites and. Its geology also covers an exceptional wide range of rocks, exposed in all their. There is a lot of geology in oman spanning a wide window in time, covering hundreds of millions of years of earth history, from the very beginning of life on earth. The oman mountains contain a number of unique and very special geological sites of world heritage importance. The geology of oman includes varied landscapes which are a blend of its geological history. Tectonic evolution of the oman mountains geoscienceworld.
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