Age and Stratigraphic Relationships of Structurally Deepest level Rocks, Oman Mountains: U/Pb SHRIMP Evidence for Late Carboniferous Neotethys Rifting

Gray, Derek; Gregory, Robert T; Armstrong, Richard; Richards, Ian J; Miller, Jodie

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Age and Stratigraphic Relationships of Structurally Deepest level Rocks, Oman Mountains: U/Pb SHRIMP Evidence for Late Carboniferous Neotethys Rifting

Date

2005

Authors

Gray, Derek

Gregory, Robert T

Armstrong, Richard

Richards, Ian J

Miller, Jodie

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

Igneous zircons in felsic schist, or metatuff, infolded with mafic schist, calcschist, and quartz mica schist of the As Sifah lower plate window, NE Oman, have yielded a U/Pb SHRIMP crystallization age of 298 ± 3 Ma. The metatuff was previously considere