Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

seosing investgations reveal twa new major fault sCts cutting through and a seyeral-hundred-yer-old jrrigation canal M system in the llajar extend for tens of ilometes, forming fracture intensifcation ones the mountain fronts in the plais to NW-oriented faults rn parallel then obliquely crosscut the mountains in the north. Motion along these faults terraccs became elevated 190 m above set level. A second fault set strikes juvenile topography suggests that they also accommadate recent uplift, fhults, with minor strike-slip and" differential moverent between various Both fault systems, and the amount of Ohuaterary uplift (between 100 and activc and ancient forebulge kt uronments, sintg the fraclure pattems range lies on the active forebulge of a collision zonc betwecn the the Zagros fold belt and the Makran acerctionary prism, which resulted in Abstract: Field mapping and remole Tertiary rocks, Quaternary terrces Mountains of morthern Oman. They several hundred metres wide. WNW adjoining the central Hajar range explains how Quaternary marine north o NNE. The associated subsidiary O the WNW-striking segments of the Hajar Mountains. 500 m), are- similar to those in other observed, it is proposed here that the Hajar NE margins of the Arabian plate, the recent uplif.

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