oa Khuff Sequence 5 (KS5), Oman Mountains: Lateral Facies and Sequence Variability – a Record of Differential Subsidence?

This study focuses on the sequence stratigraphy and 3-D modelling of the Khuff Sequence 5 (KS5) in the Oman Mountains (Al Jabal al-Akhdar), Sultanate of Oman. The Lower Khuff sequences (KS5 and KS6) are at this stage poorly understood, since most of the reservoir units are located in the Upper and Middle Khuff sequences (KS1 to KS4). Previous studies (Koehrer et al., 2010, 2011) revealed layer-cake geometries of grainstone bodies in the Middle and Upper Khuff sequences (KS1 to KS4) on outcrop to exploration scales. The key question of this study was if the layer-cake geometries continue to be present or are different in the KS5.