Figure 4. Simplified stratigraphic column of the post-obductional formations from the SE Batinah Coastal Plain to Jabal Ja’alan/Batain area, modified after Hansman et al. (2017) and Ninkabou et al. (2021). Stratigraphic column after Nolan et al. (1990), Fournier et al. (2006) and Mattern et al. (2020b). Age of major top-NE shearing (Grobe et al., 2018), emplacement of Semail Ophiolite (Searle, 2007), major exhumation and cooling of Saih Hatat (Hansman et al., 2017, 2021), minor uplift and extension of flank of Saih Hatat (Hansman et al., 2017; Scharf et al., 2020; FRF – Frontal Range Fault; IFZ – Issmaiya Fault Zone; SGFZ – Semail Gap Fault Zone; WMFZ – Wadi Mansah Fault Zone), formation and deepening of Abat Basin (Fournier et al., 2006), Masirah Ophiolite (Schreurs & Immenhauser, 1999), Basinite intrusions (Gnos & Peters, 2003; Scharf et al., 2020), Tectonic stages 1-3 (Fournier et al., 2006; Fig. 2), Gulf of Aden (Leroy et al., 2013), Zagros collision (Fakhari et al., 2008; Gavillot et al., 2010; Agard et al., 2011; Mouthereau et al., 2012), Makran subduction and olistostrome (Platt et al., 1988; Schlüter et al., 2002; Burg et al., 2008), Owen Fracture Zone (Fournier et al., 2011; Rodriquez et al., 2014), Red Sea (Ghebreab, 1998; Augustin et al., 2014), Makran Forebulge (Rodgers and Gunatilaka, 2002), Arabia-Eurasia plate motion (McQuarrie et al., 2003), Arabia-India plate motion (own data, based on GPlate, see section 4.4). Red bars indicate time for ~E/W-shortening in eastern Arabia.