I’m currently in Oman for a geology conference, so today’s geology picture is one I recently took here in the Samail Ophiolite. The picture shows some weathered and fractured pillow basalts with a pencil for scale. These are not the best-looking pillow basalts in the ophiolite. The freshest ones are found in the Geotimes sequence up in the northern part of the ophiolite whereas these weathered ones are the best ones you can observe close to Muscat, the capital city of Oman. I apologize that this picture is a bit dark. Unfortunately, we arrived at the pillow basalt outcrop just as darkness was falling. So, I took this picture using my camera flash. Still… spectacular, isn’t it? Seafloor pillow basalts on land, in the middle of the desert!
Georneys 
Nice pencil! 🙂
LikeLike
very nice!
LikeLike
pillow basalt !! i wondered how old of it x
LikeLike
These particular pillow basalts are about 95 million years old. That’s why they’re a bit weathered looking.
LikeLike
Lovely basalt pillows. Did you get any photos of sheeted dikes? I’d love to see some that show the chill margins.
LikeLike
Yes, I have some photos of sheeted dikes. I’ll try to post some soon!
LikeLike
Hello Evelyn,
It was a long time ago but I am interested in this Omani pillow lava. I live in Oman, and the only one I know is the famous Wadi Jizzi “Geotimes”. Do you remember where you found this one ? Do you know of any other closer to Muscat than Wadi Jizzi ?
Thank you !
LikeLike