Regional Geology The Arabian Shield

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Regional GeologyThe Arabian Shield
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The Earth
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Slice cut in the Earth
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The Arabian Plate
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Arabian Plate tectonic setting
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The Dead Sea Aqaba Fault
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Aqaba Strike-Slip Fault
Fault
Dead Sea
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The Arabian Gulf
The Arabian Gulf
Folds (Domes)
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Trends of Stress Regimes within the Arabian Plate
ZAGROSS STRESS
OMAN STRESS
Strain Ellipses for Zagros and Oman Stress Regimes
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Geology of Saudi Arabia
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Arabian Nubian Shield
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Bowens Reaction Series
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Jeddah, Makkah and Taif
Taif
Jeddah
Al-Hada
Makkah
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Arabian Shield
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Makkah-Taif Road
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Makkah-Taif Road
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Makkah Al-Taif Road
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Makkah-Taif Road
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Sill
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Sills
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Dikes
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Dikes filling fractures
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Dikes
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Dikes and Veins
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Fractures and Dikes
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Dikes Intrusions
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Xenolith
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Dikes and Sills
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Meta-sediments
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Metamorphic RocksFoliation and Lineation
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Breccias
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Evolution of the Arabian Shield
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Ophiolite Belts in The Arabian Shield
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The Arabian Shield
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Pillow Lava
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Pillow Lava
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Five Microplates
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RED SEA AND HARRAT
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Topography of the Red Sea
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Crater
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Crater
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Volcanic vent
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Relationship of the Arabian Shield to the
overlying Sedimentary Formations
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Non-ConformityContact between Precambrian and
Phanerozoic rocks
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Non-ConformityContact between Precambrian and
Phanerozoic rocks
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Wajeed Sandstones
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Gondwana
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Horst and Graben
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Cross Section of The Arabian Plate
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Type of Regional Faults
Extension
Comperssion
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Salt Diapirs
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Salt Domes and Fractures
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Economic Importance Of the Arabian Shield
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Ancient Mine
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Ancient Inclined Shafts
Carbonatized Serpentinite
Felsic Dike
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Inclined Shaft
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Vertical Shaft
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Mahd Al-Dahab
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Mahd Al-Dahab Mine
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Exploration drilling for gold in the Shield