Geological Soceiety of Oman


GSO Field Trip
# Month/Year Title
1 Jan 02 Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of Al khod Area GSO’s Inaugural Fieldtrip.
2 Feb 02 The Rocks Below Our Feet: Geology of the Muscat Area.
3 Jan 03 Geology of the Musandam Area
4 Feb 03 & Jan 04 From Snowball Earth to Hothouse - A Journey into Oman’s Distant Past
5 Mar 03 Geology of Wadi Meeh
6 Oct 03  Geological Excursion to Wadi Jizzi
7 Dec 03 & Nov 05 11 Ladies exploring Majestic Muscat
8 Mar 04 Early-Late Permian Gharif Deposits in Oman at Outcrop and in core
9 Apr 04 Permian – NeoProterzoic rocks of the Southern Huqf
10 Nov 04 Fieldtrip to the Saiq Plateau (The Permian Saiq and Triassic Mahil Formations of the Saiq Plateau- analogues to the Khuff of the subsurface?
11 Feb 05 Fieldtrip to the Salt domes of Central Oman
12 Mar 05 Geology of the Cambro-Ordovician Amdeh Formation
13 Mar 05 Fieldtrip to the Saiwan area of the Northern Huqf (From Cryptospores to Bennettites and vaccinates – all in a weekend!)
14 Mar 05 Wadi Hamaliya Ophiolite Excursion
15 Apr 05 & Mar 06 Fieldtrip through Jabal Akhdar and Saih Hatat (From Subduction to Exhumation two days tectonic and metamorphic transect from Tanuf to Sifa)
16 Sep 05 Stratigraphic evolution and stratal geometries of the Cretaceous platform in Oman
17 Dec 05 Geology of Jabal Madar “ Shuaiba”
18 Jan 06 Spudding- in of Fahud-1 (50th anniversary field trip to Jebel Fahud)
19 Feb 06 Geology of Bar Al Hikman, A modern Carbonate Analog
20  Dec 06 The Sharqiyah Aeolian System: Processes, Products and Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity & Production.
21 Dec 06 Tackling the Tertiary on Foot
22 Jan 07 Geology of Jebel Sumeini
23  Feb 07 Haima core workshop (The Cambro-Ordovician Lower Haima Supergroup. Amin, Miqrat and Lower Andam Formations)
24 Mar 07 Lower Haima Field trip (Cambro-Ordovician Haima Supergroup: Miqrat Formation, Al Bashair and Barik Sandstone Members )
25 Dec 07 Tackling the Tertiary on Foot
26 Feb 08 Al Khlata Fieldtrip
27 Feb 08 Geology of Muscat Uncut – A look Through the Bar Al-Jissah – Yitti Road Cut
28 Mar 08 Qarn Sahmah field trip
29 Apr 08 Evolution of the Jebel Akhdar
30 Apr 08 Regional Societies Field Meeting