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The Ayn Formation of the Mirbat Group, Dhofar, Oman
Abstract Glacial deposits are found in the Ayn Formation and Shareef Formation of the Mirbat Group close to Mirbat in Dhofar, southern Oman. The Mirbat Group is most likely a correlative of the Abu Mahara Group of the Huqf Supergroup of northern Oman. The Ayn Formation, the main subject of this chapter, comprises <400 m of mainly coarse-grained glaciogenic deposits, ponded in 2- to >8-km-wide N- to NW-oriented palaeovalleys eroded into crystalline basement, with few or no deposits preserved on intervening palaeohighs. The Shareef Formation occurs as thin, lenticular, erosional remnants beneath the unconformably overlying Cretaceous. The Ayn Formation is overlain by a thin (<3 m), discontinuous cap carbonate that passes from carbonate-cemented talus on the basin margin to stromatolitic carbonate on palaeohighs and resedimented gravity flows on palaeovalley flanks. The Ayn Formation is younger than its youngest detrital zircons and the youngest late plutons in crystalline basement, constraining it to < c . 720 Ma, but its exact age is unknown. The detrital zircon population comprises exclusively Neoproterozoic sources, suggesting derivation from the juvenile Neoproterozoic crust of the Arabian area. The composition of fine-grained matrix in glaciogenic diamictite units and of non-glacial mudstones, plotted using the chemical index of alteration (CIA), suggests strong variations in the intensity of palaeoweathering on contemporary land surfaces between the mechanical weathering-dominated Ayn Formation, and the chemical weathering-dominated overlying Arkahawl Formation, which supports the notion of major glaciation followed by rapid climatic transit as basin margins were flooded and buried with sediment during post-glacial transgression. The carbon isotopic ratio (δ 13 C) of the post-glacial carbonate is strongly variable from −3.5‰ to +5.8‰, whereas carbonate fissures in the underlying basement range between +4.1‰ and +5.7‰. Two independent palaeomagnetic studies have yielded low palaeomagnetic latitudes for the Mirbat Group.