regional geology (geol 318)

Regional Geology (Geol 318)

Regional Geology(Geol 318)

Second Semester 2001

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The Earth


Earth Layers


Slice cut in the Earth


The Arabian Plate


Satellite Image of The Arabian Plate


The Dead Sea Aqaba Fault


Aqaba Strike-Slip Fault


The Dead Sea Aqaba Fault


The Arabian Gulf


Trends of Stress

Regimes within the Arabian

Plate

OMAN OMAN STRESSSTRESS

Strain Ellipses for Zagros and Oman Stress RegimesStrain Ellipses for Zagros and Oman Stress Regimes

ZAGROSSZAGROSSSTRESSSTRESS


Some Lineaments within Jeddah Some Lineaments within Jeddah CityCity


Jeddah, Makkah and Taif

JeddahMakkah

Taif

Al-Hada


Makkah-Taif Road


Makkah Al-Taif Road


Makkah-Taif Road


Sill


Sills


Dikes and Sill


Dikes filling fractures


Dikes


Dikes Intrusions


Dikes and Veins


Fractures and Dikes


Metamorphic RocksFoliation and Lineation


Meta-sediments


Xenolith


Dikes and Sills


Homestake Mine


Pillow Lava


Breccias


Wajeed Sandstones


Landslide (Breccia)


Gondwana


Five Microplates


Thrusting


The Arabian Shield


Topography of the Red Sea


Exploration drilling for gold in the Shield


Ancient Mine


Ancient Inclined Shafts

Carbonatized SerpentiniteCarbonatized Serpentinite

Felsic DikeFelsic Dike


Inclined Shaft


Vertical Shaft


Plate and Earth Quakes


Pacific and North American Plates


Strike-Slip (San Andreas Fault)Strike-Slip (San Andreas Fault)


San Andreas FaultSan Andreas Fault


Non-ConformityContact between Precambrian and Phanerozoic

rocks


Salt DiapirsSalt Diapirs


Salt Domes and FracturesSalt Domes and Fractures


Type of Regional Faults


Horst and Graben


Lineaments Lineaments withinwithin

Ghawar Area Ghawar Area


Bouma Sequence of TurbiditiesBouma Sequence of Turbidities


3D-Reservoir Characterization


Geology of Saudi Arabia


Cross Section of The Arabian Plate


Early Paleozoic


Late Paleozoic


Mesozoic


Cenozoic


Petroleum Traps


Types of Oil TrapsTypes of Oil Traps

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