The Musandam PeninsulaThese sedimentary layers are found in the United Arab Emirates on the Musandam

The Musandam PeninsulaThese sedimentary layers are found in the United Arab Emirates on the Musandam Peninsula – a narrow strip of land that juts out into the Persian Gulf, divides the gulf from the Indian Ocean, and creates the narrow Straits of Hormuz through which the ships heading to and from the Persian Gulf must travel.These rocks were deposited in a long series of sedimentary basins on the edge of the Gondwana supercontinent. At this spot, sediments accumulated between the Permian and the Cretaceous; a period of nearly 200 million years – there were some gaps as sea levels lowered and the ocean retreated, but overall this spot contains a kilometer-high pile of dirt, mostly made of limestone and lime muds. These layers are related to and correlate with the units farther north that contain the oil and gas reservoirs of the middle east.The comparable layers are buried to the north, but this spot is caught in-between faulting of the Zagros mountains and a large thrust fault to the south that pushed a piece of the ocean floor all the way up onto the continent. This is therefore one small part of the collision between Africa, Arabia, India, and Eurasia that has produced mountains running from Europe to Asia.-JBBImage credit: https://flic.kr/p/2jjmmYEReferences:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-5457.1980.tb00979.xhttps://bit.ly/3ehJ1Dr -- source link

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