You’ve been abducted from your cozy existence and added into an alien. As you walk beside the lake on a cloudy night, a curious, organic artifact falls from the starry sky and inexplicably, without asking permission, transports you across the universe. When they look familiar, you'll be able to orient yourself. Figure 1(a) Regional tectonic map of the Middle East displaying the study area in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the suture of the Arabian and Eurasian plates along the Main Zagros fault (Koshnaw et al., 2017, and references therein). From Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst, comes a new sci-fi adventure. Two major systems may develop in convergent oceanic/continental plate boundaries: - (1) the oceanic lithosphere may sink into the mantle, developing a -Wadati plane. For the sake of my own self interest and you may consider the same, eventually youll locate a map of Hunrath I snapped a pic, saved and printed it for orientation and reference purposes. If you're not sure exactly where to go, just look at the copious images on each page. 'Resist The Urge to Run', Obduction provides vague visual clues that equal the transparent nature of most of the written clues. The Peri-Arabic obduction corresponded to a spectacular, almost synchronous thrust movement along thousands of km from Turkey to Oman (in c. The table of contents below and at the bottom of each page shows Obduction in its entirety.Įach guide page flows into the next, and you can use the quick navigation box just above the tables of contents to hop to the previous or next area. Obduction corresponds to one of plate tectonics oddities, whereby dense, oceanic rocks (ophiolites) are thrust on top of light, continental ones. We've organized our Obduction guide based on worlds and what you have to do in them, so each chapter's name represents a puzzle or an objective.