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Drilling at both Jette's Hill, testing outcropping mineralisation and Liv's Hill, testing a prominent magnetic anomaly coinciding with a large interpreted structural domal feature, has now been completed, with pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite mineralisation observed in RC chips from both prospects.

These facies are laterally and vertically related with domal agglutinated oolitic stromatolites (Fig.

M, Li J.W, Hu R.Z, 2008 Structural and geochronological constraints on the tectono- thermal evolution of the Danba domal terrane, eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau.

Al-Wattayah actually is a part of the Saih Hatat geological unit which forms broadly a major domal structure, exposes Pre-Permian to Tertiary main tectono-stratigraphic sequence of the Oman Mountains, and reveals structural complex of overprinting in several phases of tectonism.The studied area shows a contact between Tertiary rocks of marly limestone and schist/siltstone of Cretaceous age.

Salt can be found as evaporite beds or as intrusive (domal or ridge) deposits where salt from a major underlying source has been forced up into overlying formations.

Elf hopes there might be oil in the domal region of the North Field and adjacent areas to the south.

Extensive thrust-stacking of the succession (Archibald, 1987) was followed by middle-amphibolite-facies metamorphism and the intrusion of syn-kinematic domal granitoids, such as the Widgiemooltha Monzogranite (Binns et al., 1976; Archibald et al., 1978; McQueen, 1981) during peak metamorphism and cleavage formation at about 2,660 Ma (Hill and Compston, 1986).

Geologically, these faults were initiated as thrust faults along the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT), however, due to rapid Neogene uplift of the basement rocks, the MMT has been reactivated as dip- and strike-slip faults accommodating domal uplift of the syntaxis.