INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Scale 1:5,000,000
Second edition 2009
General coordination, compilation and synthesis

Abdolazim HAGHIPOUR
CGMW Vice-President for the Middle East

COMMISSION FOR THE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE WORLD SUBCOMMISSION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
25 30
cm

Compilation assisted by: A. Saidi and A. Aganabati; with collaboration of A. Moosavi, A. Mohebi, M. Sadeghi, T. Delavar, Sh. Eskandari, F.Bagheri and M. Zarei Nejad (Geological Survey of Iran)
35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70

COMMISSION DE LA CARTE GOLOGIQUE DE MONDE SOUS-COMMISSION POUR LE MOYEN-ORIENT

75
Taraqz
! !

Bishkek

K1

Black

Sea
sm

Shymkent cm Aktau
! ! !

Narvn

Oroznyi
!

cm
!

Machackala ! Bujnaksk KE Kutaisi

!

Bos po

rus

Nukus
!

Karajul
!

Chirchik
!

Sea of Marmara 40
Tiblisi
! !

Tashkent Derbent
! !

Namangan
! !

Andizhan Osh
!

40

cm Zakata

Dashoguz
!

Urgench
! ! !

Limnos

Fergana

Kashi
!

Aegean Sea
Kirovabad cm
!

Agdas
!

Lsvos
Barda
!

Sumgait
!

Kurdamir
!

BAKU
"

Caspian Sea
Turkmenbashi
!

Shache
!

Dzhizak
!

Navoi
! !

Kattakurgan Sarnarkand
!

Yecheng
!

Izmir
!

Usak
!

Erzincan
!

Erzurum
! !

Agdam Zdanousk
!

Khios Samos

BukharaoKagan
! !

Bogazliyan
!

Ikaria

Ortakoy
!

Shakhrisabz Kayseri
!

Tunceli
!

Nebit-Dag
!

Turkmenabat Bingol
!

Aksaray
!

Nakhi-Cevan
!

DUSHANBE
"

JK Kizyl-azvet
!

Konya
! !

Astarakhan-Bazar Amudar ya
!

Khorog Kurgan-Tyube
! !

cm Antalya
! !

Karman

Kahramanmaras
!

Adiyaman
! !

Uch-Adzhi Tabriz
!

Ashgabat

cm

Rhodes

Gulf of Antalya
cm

Adana
! !

Ceyhan Osmaniye
!

Pyanbzh Hakkari Sanliurfa

! !

cm
!

Mary
!

Termez Taluqan Kunduz

! !

Crete
!

Rasht

( ! ( !

Mazarsharif
! !

Kashmir Samangan
! !

35

35

JK

JK
!

?
Mosul Lataki
! !

Sheberghan
!

Baghan

Aleppo
!

Mashad
!

Saripul
!

Arbil Takhtabazar
! !

Baramula Mahmud-Raq
!

NQ

Tripoli
! "

TEHRAN Homs
! !

Karkuk

Bamyani
! "

Jalalabad KABUL
!

Peshavar
! "

ISLAMABAD

Qala-naw
!

Mediterranean
JK

Sea

sm

Beirut
!

Chaghcharan
!

Gardeyz
!

Herat
!

Ghazni
!

Khost
! !

Sialkat

Sharan-woluswall
!

JK Haifa
!

BAGHDAD
!

Lahor
!

Telaviv-Yafo
!

Tinnkot
! !

Zabul Qalat
!

cm Amman
!

Karbala
!

JERUSALEM
"

AL QUDS Najaf
!

Esfahan
! !

Farah

Kandahar
!

30
Ahvaz
!

Yazd
!

Lashkargah
!

30

Basrah
!

Bahawalpur
!

Kerman
!

ba

Aq a

Gul f of

f of Gul z Su e
cm NQ

Zahedan
!

Shiraz
!

Bubiyan Nagahur
!

Tabuk
!

Khark
cm

Kuwait
! !

Jodhpur

Pe

Alwajh
!

25

rs

Hormoz Larak

25

Khaybar
!

Manama
!

Farur

Gu
Doha
!

Tonb

St

ia

Lavan

Qeshm
Hengam

Kish

it of H ra

cm

NQ

lf
cm

Siri

Rasalkhavmah
!

oz orm

( !

( ! ( ! ( ! ( ! ( ! ( ! ( !

Karchi
!

Sharjeh ! Dubayy
!

( !

Fujayrah
!

Makran

C oa s t
cm Surendranagar
!

Mahesana
!

Gandhinagar
!

Medina
!

Ahmadabad
!

Yanbualbahr
!

RIYADH
"

Dalma

Abudhabi
!

cm

Masqat
!

Oman Sea
sm cm
!

Re
NQ Mecca Jiddah
! !

Jamnagar

d Se

Tr o p i c

of

Cancer

K2

sm

r ur

ay

dg Ri

e
!

Junagadh

sm

Diu
!

Daman
!

20
Aljobah
!

20

sm K2 cm

a
Masira
cm
!

Bombay
!

Alqunfudhah sm

K2 cm sm

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS Ages (Ma)

Quat.

CONTINENTAL CRUST sedimentary and undifferentiated facies

Q NQ Q1 N2 N N1 EN
1+ N1 3 N1

OCEANIC CRUST with younger sedimentary cover

Main active volcanoes (last known or probable eruption 10 000 yrs-present)

E1

sm

0.012 2.588 5.332 11.61 15.97 23.03 CZ 33.90 37.20 48.60 55.80

/ lake

Holoc. Pleis. Plio.

M ioc en e

Q2

NQ

K2

NQ

Holocene mud volcanoes Subduction zone cm

CENOZOIC (CZ)

Neogene (N)

N1 N1
1

cm

sm

Thrust / reverse fault N1 Dip-slip fault cm

!

E2 Najran

Black Sea / S. Caspian

Paleogene (E)

Oligo. Eocene

E3 E2+ E1-2 E2 E2
1+ E2 2

sm: Seamount / oceanic plateau & ridge

E3

Strike-slip / transform fault with sense of motion Unspecified fault

!

cm: Continental or island arc margin, N. Indian Ocean submarine deposits

Jizan

Is Muriya Khuri a
sm Salalah
!

Arabian Sea
E3 sm E1

E1

sm

sm

E2

Axis of oceanic accretion Anticline

sm

E1 2 E1 KE K2

sm K2

PHANEROZOIC (PH)

Undetermined age

15

MESOZOIC (MZ)

E. Mediterranean

Paleoc. s 65.50 ou 99.60 ce a ret

145.5 161.2 JK

E1 K2

Syncline KE K1 Formation boundaries Lithofacies boundaries E2 J Dashed lines wherever : concealed / inferred features NQ sm E3 E1 sm

15
sm

K K1 J3 J J2-3 J2 J1-2 TJ1 T PM PT TJ2 J1 T3 T2 T1 P CP DP C D SD S OS RZ CS CO C NP RC PR MP PP PC A2 AR A1 NA MA PA EA O DC PZ

JK

ic ss ra Ju

175.6 199.6

MZ

sm

WITHIN
N-Q E MZ PZ PC Undifferentiated

CONTINENT
SALT

Tr

sic ias

228.0 245.0 251.0

IGNEOUS

OPHIOLITIC MELANGE

E1 & older K Pre - J Pre - P

METAMORPHIC FACIES

CZ J PR-PZ

Alhudydah
!

N1

PALEOZOIC (PZ)

Permian Carbon. Devonian Silurian

299.0 359.2 416.0 443.7

Undifferentiated Low grade Medium grade High grade & anatectic

SEDIMENTARY FACIES
!

N1 Sanah Almukalla
!

E3 NQ

E2 K2 NQ sm E3 N1 sm E1 E2 E3 sm

Ordovician Cambrian

488.3 542.0

IGNEOUS TYPE & COMPOSITION Intrusive Extrusive

cm Balhaf
!

Acid Acid-interm. Intermediate Basic-interm. Basic Ultrabasic Unclassified Volcano-sedimentary Undifferentiated

Carbonate / evaporite Flysch / Molasse Undifferentiated

QUATERNARY DEPOSITS

PRECAMBRIAN (PC)

O ER O T P R) PR (

IC 1000 ZO
1600 2500

N1

Alluvial & unclassified Fluvial / glacier Travertine Sand dune & beach / loess Playa lake / deposit cm
!

N1

C AR

N EA

R) 2800 (A
3200 3600 ~ 4650

Aden N1

Gulf of Aden
NQ N1

NQ K2

E2

E1 K1

10

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Socotra
sm cm E3 E3 N1

NQ

10

cm N1

INDIAN
E2 u E2 NQ N1 E3

OCEAN
E2 E1 sm

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Projection system: Lambert conformal conic, with central meridian at 51 East; R.L.=27, S.P.1=18, S.P.2=36, F.E.=3,000,000, F.N.= 2,000,000.