The opening of Neo-Tethys and the formation of the Khuff passive margin. In The Permo–Triassic Sequence of the Arabian Plate, Abstracts of the EAGE’s Third Arabian Plate Geology Workshop, Kuwait. Abstract,

Abstract

Any investigation of regional geology and palaeomagnetism in the Middle East will show that in the Permian a series of terranes separated from Gondwana and drifted north, opening the Neo-Tethys Ocean in their wake. To the north of these terranes, the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean closed and was largely subducted. Eventually in a non-synchronous movement but largely in Late Triassic and Early Jurassic times, these terranes docked with the northern margin of the former Palaeo-Tethys during the Cimmerian Orogeny.