A common deviation from typical subduction models occurs when thrust sheets of oceanic crust and upper-mantle rocks are emplaced over more buoyant continental lithosphere. The archetypal example ophiolite obduction is the Semail in United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Oman orogenic belt, formed obducted onto Arabian margin during Late Cretaceous. Strait Hormuz syntaxis, northern extent UAE-Oman mountains...

The Persian Gulf, a young and shallow epicontinental sea, is known for its unique geological oceanographic characteristics that foster diverse productive marine ecosystems. A substantial portion of the Gulf’s seafloor consists unconsolidated soft sediments, making it unsuitable colonization by many sessile organisms. Consequently, relatively few hard grounds submerged banks provide suitable hab...

Investigation of stratification in marine environments is always considered by researchers. In this study double-diffusive convection and stratification in the Bab el Mandeb strait is investigated by analyzing of field data. Measurement of seawater temperature and salinity from ARGO project (2009 to2014) and also R-V Knorr (2001) cruise with the daily average of seawater temperature and salinit...

The production rates of DOC and POC by phytoplankton during the FRUELA 95 cruise were estimated by means of time-course experiments of C-bicarbonate incorporation. A three-compartment carbon exchange model was used to avoid the artifacts that may appear in end-point experiments due to heterotrophic removal of recently released DOC. The study area was classified into three regions with different...

To further enhance dialogue and promote cross-strait cooperation in the prevention and control of parasitic diseases, this paper reviewed the progress and current challenges in the cross-strait control and research of parasitic infections, based on three cross-strait meetings on parasitological research in the last decade. The major outcome of the 3rd Meeting of Cross-Strait Parasitological Res...

[1] We have explored surface water mixing in the Lombok Strait through a bimonthly resolved surface water DC time series reconstructed from a coral in the Lombok Strait that spans 1937 through 1990. The prebomb surface water DC average is 60.5%, and individual samples range from 72% to 134%. The annual average postbomb maximum occurs in 1973 at 122%. The timing of the postbomb maximum is consis...