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A discussion on the structure and evolution of the Red Sea and the nature of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Ethiopia rift junction - The shear along the Dead Sea rift
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In this paper, it was shown that while none of the pre-Tertiary sedimentary or igneous units extend right across the rift, all of them resume a reasonable palaeographical configuration once the east side of the rift is placed 105 km south of its present position.Abstract:
Recent surface and subsurface geological investigations in Israel and Jordan provide new data for the re-examination of Dubertret’s (1932) hypothesis of the left-hand shear along the Dead Sea rift. It is found that while none of the pre-Tertiary sedimentary or igneous rock units extend right across the rift, all of them resume a reasonable palaeographical configuration once the east side of the rift is placed 105 km south of its present position. It is therefore concluded that the 105 km post-Cretaceous, left-hand shear along the Dead Sea rift is well established. The 40 to 45 km offset of Miocene rocks and smaller offsets of younger features indicate an average shear movement rate of 0.4 to 0.6 cm a -1 during the last 7 to 10 Ma. Unfortunately, the 60 km pre-Miocene movement cannot be dated yet. Along the Arava and Gulf of Aqaba and in Lebanon the shear is divided over a wide fault zone within and outside the rift.read more
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Holocene faulting and earthquake recurrence along the Serghaya branch of the Dead Sea fault system in Syria and Lebanon
Francisco Gomez,Mustapha Meghraoui,A. Darkal,Fouad Hijazi,M. Mouty,Youssef Suleiman,R. Sbeinati,Ryad Darawcheh,R. Al-Ghazzi,Muawia Barazangi +9 more
TL;DR: Gomez et al. as discussed by the authors published an edited version of this paper in Geophysical Journal International by Blackwell Publishing and retained the copyright of the original article, which was published in 2003.
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The Gölbaºi basin, southeastern Turkey: a complex discontinuity in a major strike-slip fault zone
R. O. B. Westaway,J. A. N. Arger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the 33 km long Golbaoi basin on the East Anatolian fault zone marks the triple junction between the African, Arabian and Turkish plates.
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene slip rate of the Northern Wadi Araba fault, Dead Sea Transform, Jordan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the slip rate of the Wadi Araba Fault (WAF) segment of the E-Wtrending Khunayzira (Amatzayahu) fault.
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Structural evolution of the Suneinah Foreland, Central Oman Mountains
TL;DR: In the early Mesozoic, the Suneinah Foreland of the central Oman Mountains lay on the flank of a north facing Tethyan rift margin, and by the end of the Middle Cretaceous, this had evolved into a carbonate dominated passive margin this article.
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Lower-crustal strength under the Dead Sea basin from local earthquake data and rheological modeling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the local seismicity of the Dead Sea basin for the period 1984-1997 and found that 60% of well-constrained microearthquakes nucleated at depths of 20-32 km and more than 40% occurred below the depth of peak seismicity situated at 20 km.
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Age and Rate of the Sinistral Movement along the Dead Sea Rift
TL;DR: The results of geophysical and oceanographical research on the age and rate of opening of the Red Sea are compared here with the geological and palaeogeographical indications of the component of this movement along the Dead Sea Rift as mentioned in this paper.
La Géologie d’une partie du Liban Sud
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Problemes de la geologie du Levant
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Old Shore Lines of Palestine
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors brought up to date the known history of the earth's crust in the south-east Levant, and presented a map of the Levant's surface and its history.