The city of Salalah has a distinctly tropical feel to it, particularly during the khareef monsoon when the whole area turns a vivid emerald green. With the serious driving out of the way, you can spend the last days of your trip enjoying the unique landscapes of the mountains around Salalah. This is when the region enjoys a khareef , or monsoon season, that turns the mountain landscapes a lush green, with gushing waterfalls and swimming holes.
A four-wheel-drive vehicle is advisable for this trip — there are various hire companies in Muscat. Fuel is relatively cheap, but distances between stops can be lengthy, so take care to fill up where you can. When to go October to March are the peak months, when much of Oman has a summer-in-the-Med climate. For more information on the country as a whole, visit experienceoman. Facebook Instagram Twitter. This content is created for our partner. National Geographic National Geographic.
By Oman Ministry of Tourism. Photograph by Getty Images. Days to Ras Madrakah Back on the road, loop the mangrove-fringed bay — perhaps calling in at the birdwatching spot of Filim — before making a stop at the fishing village of Al Khaluf, which plays host to the stunning white sands of the Sugar Dunes. Variable climate in the Quaternary, with alternating chemical and physical weathering, resulted in intensive erosion. As a consequence, the scenery in the mountains is spectacular , with erosional landforms, including deeply incised river systems, locally known as wadis.
The rock sequence exposed in these wadis reveals a complex geological history , starting in the Precambrian. Continued sedimentation is encountered with the opening of the Tethys Ocean in the Permian.
The Permian-Mesozoic sequence is dominated by limestone that formed on a carbonate platform along the passive margin of the ocean. The sequence is overlain by two nappes of which the upper one is world-famous: The Semail Ophiolite.
This remnant of the ocean floor was obducted in a geological accident during the Upper Cretaceous. The Hajar Mountains, including the ophiolite and overlying Paleogene carbonates, are characteristic for the coastal area of eastern Oman. Here rocky cliff sections alternate with small pocket beaches. Oman is located on the Arabian Plate, which is rotating counter clockwise towards the Eurasian Plate. In between these two lies the Makran Subduction Zone with a hazard potential that is best described as enigmatic.
The seismicity is concentrated along the eastern part of the subduction zone, whereas the western part is seismically quiet, which hampers the assessment of risk. The last severe earthquake that struck here resulted in a tsunami that affected the coastlines on 27 th November One main goal of our research was to find sedimentological evidence of past tsunami events.
We mapped coastal sediments by means of classic geological fieldwork , with a special emphasis on sediments indicating marine facies. The general assumption was that an extreme-wave event reworks nearshore, intertidal and beach sediments and redeposits them inland on elevations above mean sea level.
The processes responsible for the wave event can be either a storm surge or a tsunami. It remains a challenging task to decipher these processes by sedimentological criteria. We identified sandy washover deposits as well as block and boulder ridges located above mean sea level. We applied differential GPS measurements to reveal the exact elevation of the deposits and used terrestrial laser scanning and drone surveys to precisely map the block and boulders Schneider et al.
The largest boulder has a mass of We conclude on the timing of the events by r adiocarbon dating of marine organism attached to the blocks and boulders or incorporated in the washover deposits Hoffmann et al.
Furthermore, optically stimulated luminescence dating OSL was applied to washover deposits and archaeological remains were identified that testify for devastating waves.
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