Recent Sedimentation and Stratigraphic Development in the Arabian Gulf

Abstract

The Persian/Arabian Gulf is subsiding in response to the collision between the Arabian and Asian plates and to growth during the last 5-10 years of the Zagros mountains. Uplifted fold belts, thickened continental crust, and poorly understood subcrustal loads depress the northeast edge of the Arabian plate creating, by lithospheric plate flexure, a foreland basin that is filled to the southeast with the shallow Gulf sea and to the northwest with sediment deposited by the Mesopotamian river system. The stratigraphy of Neogene sediments within the Gulf is clearly affected by the tectonics of the collision and mountain building.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA400715

Entities

People

  • David A. Ross
  • Stephen A. Swift

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Properties
  • Databases
  • Digital Data
  • High Resolution
  • Maps
  • Materials
  • Mountains
  • Navigation
  • Physical Properties
  • Reflection
  • Seabed
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Seismic Reflection
  • Seismic Velocity
  • Sonar
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Oceanography.
  • Seismology