Dhahran and Oman Societies Welcome AAPG President-Elect
Scott Tinker, AAPG President-Elect, was in Oman at the beginning of April on AAPG business. He took a two-day field trip hosted by the Geological Society of Oman and attended by members of the Dhahran Geological Society (Saudi Arabia) and others from around the region.
The trip visited the spectacular Precambrian through Mesozoic section of the Jebel Akhdar (The Green Mountain) in the Al Hajar Mountains range in Oman, which extends about 300 km northwest to southeast, between 50-100 km inland from the Gulf of Oman coast. The highest point, Jabal Shams (the mountain of the sun), is around 3,000 meters elevation; the highest point in Oman and the whole of eastern Arabia. The region is famous for exposures of Cretaceous (Tethys Sea) ophiolites, thrust from north to south onto the Arabian plate.
The visit included meetings with the Vice Chancellor of the Sultan Qaboos University and heads of the Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Departments to reactivate the Student Chapter of AAPG, and with Senior Management in PDO where Tinker gave a talk on Energy Myths and discussed AAPG Corporate Membership.