Analysis of Major Surface Structural Features in Marib Sector,  Sab'atayn Basin, Yemen: Implications of Tectonic Evolution

Saleh A Ghareb; Syed Ahmad Ali; Hamdi S Aldharab; Javed Ikbal

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Saleh A Ghareb Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, ligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India.
Syed Ahmad Ali Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India.
Hamdi S Aldharab Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India.
Javed Ikbal Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Marib SectoR, Sab'atayn Basin, Yemen

Abstract

This study includes major surface structural features in Marib Sector of Sab'atayn Basin. Detailed field investigations of the study area have revealed a tectonic setting characterized by faults, folds, joints, and dykes. Data of faults indicate that the study area has affected by the tectonics of Najd fault, the rift of the Gulf of Aden, and the rift of the Red Sea respectively. The folds in Al-Balaq area were formed as a result of local deformation which most probably has been occurred during the Jurassic time. In Ath Thaniyah area, folds were formed as a result of Pan-African tectonics in the study area. Folds in Jabal Al-Milh area have been developed locally due to salt tectonics; folds in this area were found upon the upturned flanks of the Nayfa Formation. Joints were found in two sets, first dominated set oriented to NW-SE whereas the second trend to ENE-WSW. Subordinate trends of joints are WNW-ESE and NNE-SSW. Dykes, in the area, are trending to ENE-WSW, parallel to the trend of the Gulf of Aden. Gulf of Aden has taken an old trend between Arabian Plate and Somalia Plate. The dykes are older than the Gulf of Aden trend which indicates that the Gulf of Aden developed along Precambrian weak zones between Arabian Plate and Somalia Plate.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Ali, S. A. (2000). Trend surface analysis of Microlineament in Parsoli-Bichor area of Vindhyan Basin, Rajasthan. Indian Journal of Petroleum Geology, 9(2), 37-48.

Ali, S. A., Alhamed, M., & Ali, U. (2016). Morphometric analysis of Abdan Basin, Almahfid basement rock, Yemen: using remote sensing and GIS. Int J Adv Remote Sens GIS, 5(3), 1605-1617. 3. Ali, S. A., & Ali, U. (2015). Litho-structural mapping of Sind catchment (Kashmir Basin), NW Himalaya, using remote sensing & GIS techniques. Int J Sci Res, 4(7), 1325-1330. 4. Ali, S. A., & Ali, U. (2017). Evaluating linear geological structures in seismogenic compressional setting, Kashmir basin, NW-Himalaya. Spatial Information Research, 25(6), 801-811. 5. Ali, S. A., (2000). Lithofacies of Debari Group, Jaisamand Area, Udaipur District, Rajasthan, Rajasthan. Bull. Indian Geologists Association, 33 (2), 11-17.

Ali, S. A., Khan, A., Rais, S. (2003). Record of Syneresis Structures from Nithar Sediments of Bayana Sub-Basin, Delhi Supergroup, Rajasthan. Indian Journal of Petroleum Geology, 12 (2), 59- 63.

Ali, S. A., (2000). Bedding characteristics of conglomerate of Debari Group, Aravalli Super Group Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Indian Minerals, 54 (1&2), 79-84.

Al-Wosabi, M., &Wasel, S. (2011). Lithostratigraphic subdivision of the Kuhlan Formation in Yemen. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 4(7-8), 1323-1335.

Beydoun, Z. R. (1997). Introduction to the revised Mesozoic stratigraphy and nomenclature for Yemen. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 14(6), 617-629.

Beydoun, Z. R., & As-Saruri, M. L. (1998). The Phanerozoic depositional basins and inter-basinal highs of Yemen: their structural framework and sedimentary cover. Zeitschrift fur GeologischeWissenschaften, 26, 517-530.

Beydoun, Z. R., As-Saruri, M. L., &Baraba, R. S. (1996). Sedimentary basins of the Republic of Yemen: their structural evolution and geological characteristics. Revue de l'InstitutFrançais du Pétrole, 51(6), 763-775.

Beydoun, Z.R., Al-Saruri, M., El-Nakhal, H., Al-Ganad, I.N., Baraba, R.S., Nani, A.S.O., Al Aawah, M.H., 1998. International Lexicon of Stratigraphy, second ed., vol. III. International Union of Geological Sciences and Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources, Republic of Yemen, Republic of Yemen.

Brannan, J., Sahota, G., Gerdes, K. D., & Berry, J. A. (1999). Geological evolution of the central Marib-Shabwa basin, Yemen. GeoArabia, 4(1), 9-34.

Davis, G. H., Reynolds, S. J., Kluth, C. F., 2012. Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions (3nd Edition), John Wiley & Sons, p 839.

Dyer, R. (1988). Using joint interactions to estimate paleostress ratios. Journal of Structural Geology, 10(7), 685-699.

Engelder, T. (1987). Joints and shear fractures in rock. Fracture mechanics of rock, Academic press, London, pp. 27-69.

Engelder, T., &Geiser, P. (1980). On the use of regional joint sets as trajectories of paleostress fields during the development of the Appalachian Plateau, New York. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 85(B11), 6319-6341.

Heikal, M. T. S., Al-Khirbash, S. A., Hassan, A. M., Al-Kotbah, A. M., & Al-Selwi, K. M. (2014). Lithostratigraphy, deformation history, and tectonic evolution of the basement rocks, Republic of Yemen: an overview. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 7(5), 2007-2018.

Martin, A. Z. (2001). Late Permian to Holocene paleofacies evolution of the Arabian Plate and its hydrocarbon occurrences. Geo Arabia, 6(3), 445-504.

Numan, N., & Azzawi, N. (1993). Structural and geotectonic interpretation of vergence directions of anticlines in the foreland folds of Iraq.

Olson, J., & Pollard, D. D. (1989). Inferring paleostresses from natural fracture patterns: A new method. Geology, 17(4), 345-348.

Pollard, D. D. (1987). Theoretical displacements and stresses near fractures in rock: with applications to faults, joints, veins, dikes, and solution surfaces. Fracture mechanics of rock, 277-349. 24. Pollard, D. D., &Aydin, A. (1988). Progress in understanding jointing over the past century. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 100(8), 1181-1204.

Redfern, P., & Jones, J. A. (1995). The interior rifts of the Yemen-analysis of basin structure and stratigraphy in a regional plate tectonic context. Basin Research, 7(4), 337-356.

Sachsenhofer, R. F., Bechtel, A., Dellmour, R. W., Mobarakabad, A. F., Gratzer, R., & Salman, A. (2012). Upper Jurassic source rocks in the Sab’atayn Basin, Yemen: Depositional environment, source potential and hydrocarbon generation. GeoArabia, 17(4), 161-186.

Seaborne, T. R. (1996). The influence of the Sabatayn Evaporites on the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Eastern Shabwa Basin, Onshore Yemen. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 13(8), 963-972. 30. Van der Pluijm, B. A., Marshak S., 2003. Earth Structure: An Introduction to structural geology and Tectonics (2nd Edition), W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT, p 656.