Regional Geology The Arabian Shield. The Earth Slice cut in the Earth.

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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

The Arabian Gulf

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

Geology of Saudi Arabia

Arabian Nubian Shield

Bowen ’ s Reaction Series

Jeddah, Makkah and Taif Jeddah Makkah Taif Al-Hada

Arabian Shield

Makkah-Taif Road

Makkah Al-Taif Road

Makkah-Taif Road

Sill

Sills

Dikes

Dikes filling fractures

Dikes

Dikes and Veins

Fractures and Dikes

Dikes Intrusions

Xenolith

Dikes and Sills

Meta-sediments

Metamorphic Rocks Foliation and Lineation

Breccias

Evolution of the Arabian Shield

Ophiolite Belts in The Arabian Shield

The Arabian Shield

Pillow Lava

Five Microplates

RED SEA AND HARRAT

Topography of the Red Sea

Crater

Volcanic vent

Relationship of the Arabian Shield to the overlying Sedimentary Formations

Non-Conformity Contact between Precambrian and Phanerozoic rocks

Wajeed Sandstones

Gondwana

Horst and Graben

Cross Section of The Arabian Plate

Type of Regional Faults

Salt Diapirs

Salt Domes and Fractures

Economic Importance Of the Arabian Shield

Ancient Mine

Ancient Inclined Shafts Carbonatized Serpentinite Felsic Dike

Inclined Shaft

Vertical Shaft

Mahd Al-Dahab

Mahd Al-Dahab Mine

Exploration drilling for gold in the Shield

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