Published by way of the yankee Geophysical Union as a part of the Special guides Series.
Geotrekking in Southeastern Arabia offers the world’s such a lot diverse geology and reveals a number of the specific rocks that have been as soon as lined below shallow seas and at the moment are sub-aerially uncovered. This guidebook describes numerous routes that results in particular destinations for viewing the specific and global type geology of the United Arab Emirates and Oman. each one course comprises particular instructions, satellite tv for pc pictures, illustrations, and reasons which can aid with finding the phenomenal geology of the area. Certain websites preseve the realm classification ophiolites - a component of the Earth's oceanic curst and the underlying higher mantle that has been uplifted and uncovered above sea point and sometimes emplaced onto continental crustal rocks, a different technique of the Earth defined via plate tectonics.

a few salient positive factors of this guidebook include:

- UAE and Oman are situated within the south east coast of the Arabian Peninsula, which is particularly renowned for its enormous reserves of oil and normal fuel, for that reason this booklet is of nice curiosity to exploration geologists
- Mountains of the UAE and Oman are the world’s biggest and top preserved ophiolite – a slice of the deep ocean crust that has been pressured through tectonic forces onto a continental crust
- Within the mountains of those areas are sections of the deep Earth, not often uncovered at any place – items of the Earth’s underlying mantle and the decrease elements of its oceanic crust
- Other attribute positive factors comprise deep sea sediments and volcanic rocks that have been erupted by way of submarine volcanoes
- Among mineral ores, cpper deposits have been regularly shaped at old, deep sea, hydrothermal vents
- a few of the groundwater flowing out of ophiolite rocks reacts with the ambience to precipitate calcite and shape big swimming pools of water that look as blue swimming pools
-  The shallow land and excessive evaporation stipulations within the western area of the UAE varieties titanic, salt-lined mudcracks and the expansion of gypsum clusters referred to as “desert roses”
-   Stromatolites, colonies of cyanobacteria which are most likely a few of the oldest residing species in the world also are quite common during this region
- Some dunes in UAE upward thrust upto a hundred and sixty m above evaporative salt plains
- Rare incidence of 100 million-year-old pillow lavas, which shape underwater, uniquely preserved as though they erupted yesterday
- Many different geologic marvels exist in a sector identified extra for its oil and gasoline geology