Identification of Early Cretaceous magnetic lineations in the northwestern part of the Gulf of Oman

Tectono-sedimentary framework of the Gachsaran Formation in the Zagros foreland basin

“…The NE-trending magnetic (Khattab, 1993), gravity anomalies (Kadinsky-Kade & Barazangi, 1982), seismic (White & Ross, 1979) and structural evidence from the United Arab Emirates indicating right-lateral transfer zone coincide to the Dibba fault. This fault divides not only the Persian Gulf from the Oman Sea at the eastern end of the Strait of Hormuz but also the eastern boundary of a widespread and intensive seismicity within the ZFTB ( Fig.…”