Annabk anticline lies in the westernmost side of the Palmyride chain, which
is located in the northern Arabian Plate. It is a 70 km long, NE-SW oriented
asymmetrical anticline, belonging to the southern part of the Palmyrides. The
stratigraphical
column cropping out in the domain of this anticline consists of
Cretaceous and Paleogene strata of marine facies, together with Neogene and
Quaternary continental deposits. The aim of this study is to investigate the
tectonic evolution of this area, by reconstructing its paleostress history, through
analysing the brittle deformations, which were recorded in the outcropping
rocks.
