The Buday'ah Formation, Sultanate of Oman : A Middle Permian to Early Triassic oceanic record of the Neotethys and the late Induan microsphere bloom
The Middle Permian to Lower Triassic Buday'ah section, exposed in the Oman Mountains, is the first deep-sea section to be described in the Neotethys. The oceanic sediments were deposited along the southern Tethys margin in the newly formed Hawasina Basin. It is one of the few places where true Tethyan Permian radiolarites are exposed that allow the documentation of CCD evolution through time. The