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Global paleogeography (top) and major depositional settings in the southern margin of the Tethys (below) during Cambrian (about 500 Ma), modified after Cocks and Torsvik (2002). Proto-Tethys concept sensu Stampfli and Borel (2002). The Proto-Tethys waters encroached northern Gondwana, extending over parts of the present day African-Arabian plate margin as evidenced by facies distribution across these regions. The position of major Late Precambrian–Cambrian faults and rift zones (inactive at the time of this paleogeographic reconstruction), where salt deposition occurred, is indicated by the dashed faults. From F. Berra and L. Angiolini, 2014, The evolution of the Tethys region throughout the Phanerozoic: A brief tectonic reconstruction, in L. Marlow, C. Kendall, and L. Yose, eds., Petroleum systems of the Tethyan region: AAPG Memoir 106, p. 1-27.