Old Fanja (IMAGE)

Sultan Qaboos University

Old Fanja

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Old Fanja, view to the east. In foreground is shallowly dipping orange-brown listwaenite. Road cut in the background along the Nizwa Highway displays dragged siliciclastic of the Late Cretaceous Al-Khod Formation, underlain by massive listwaenite and peridotite of the Samail Ophiolite. 

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Dr. Andreas Scharf

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