Jebel Ghawil

Jebel Ghawil جَبَل غَوِيْل (in Arabic)
Village and mountain
Jebel Ghawil Location in Oman
Coordinates: 24°34′N 56°01′E
Country	Oman
Region	Al Buraimi Governorate
Time zone	UTC+4 (Oman Standard Time)

Jebel Ghawil (Arabic: جَبَل غَوِيْل, romanized: Jabal Ġawīl) is a village^[citation needed] and a mountain in Al Buraimi Governorate, in northwestern Oman. The village lies northwest of Abud.

Geology

Geologically Jebel Ghawil constitutes a formation with Jebel Suweini.[1] It consists of Triassic limestone, which is said to be "underlain by a thick sequence of pillow lavas, which are partly imbricated with cherts".[2] There are three sills intruded into basaltic lavas and tuffs dated to the late Triassic and its sills reportedly give K-Ar ages on separated biotites of 93-4 ±4Ma.[3]

References

1. Alan E. M. Nairn; Luc-Emmanuel Ricou; Bruno Vrielynck; Jean Dercourt (31 August 1996). The Ocean Basins and Margins: The Tethys Ocean. Plenum Press. ISBN 978-0-306-45156-0. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
2. Glennie, K. W. (1974). Geology of the Oman Mountains. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
3. Mineralogical Society (Great Britain) (1984). Mineralogical magazine. Mineralogical Society. Retrieved 11 May 2011.