Integration of remote sensing technique and field data in geologic mapping of an ophiolitic suture zone in western Arabian Shield

Although the diversity of rock types and intense structural deformation, the rock units and their affecting structural deformation are mapped clearly on the images and show a significant précised map after field verification, on compared with the other published maps. Tectonically, the thrust sheets affecting the ophiolite sequence were developed initially by a northwestward contractional tectonic event that was followed by an east-west contractional event which induced a transpression movement on the pre-existing thrust and foliation planes.