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No cephalopods seen over the weekend, but there were many of these large gastropods in limestone at an elevation of 1590 m in the beautiful Musandam area of northern Oman. The GoogleEarth image shows the amazing drowned fjord-like topography up here, resulting from the Eurasian Plate overriding the Arabian Plate and the northern tip of Musandam subsiding at something like 6 mm/year. The huge stack of limestones seen in the fjord walls ranges in age from Permian to Cretaceous.