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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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Sedimentary and epigenetic copper mineral assemblages in the Cambrian Timna Formation, southern Israel
TL;DR: Shlomovitch et al. as discussed by the authors showed that copper mineralization in the Timna Formation occurs in the dolomitic, sandy, and shaly lithofacies of the Upper Sasgon Member.
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Rotations in Lebanon inferred from new palaeomagnetic data and implications for the evolution of the Dead Sea Transform system
TL;DR: In this paper, a study carried out on widespread sites of the Aptian-Albian formations in Lebanon led to two palaeomagnetic directions corresponding to the primary magnetization (N=37 sites, D=307.1°, I=23.7°, k=18 and α95=5.5° after tilt correction and to a post-folding remagnetization).
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A 3D resistivity model derived from the transient electromagnetic data observed on the Araba fault, Jordan
TL;DR: In this paper, transient electromagnetic soundings were carried out on two 2 km long profiles perpendicular to the strike direction of the Araba fault in Jordan which is the southern part of the Dead Sea transform fault indicating the boundary between the African and Arabian continental plates.
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GPS Constraints on Fault Slip Rates in the Arabia-Africa-Eurasia Plate Collision Zone: Implications for Earthquake Recurrence Times
Robert Reilinger,Aykut Barka +1 more
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Lithofacies and thickness control by epigenetic dissolution—the dolomitic Timna Formation, Cambrian, southern Israel
Amit Segev,Eytan Sass +1 more
TL;DR: The Timna Formation (Cambrian) in southern Israel marks the first Phanerozoic transgression in the area as discussed by the authors, and its outcrops in the Timna Valley are intesively faulted, being adjacent to the Dead Sea rift valley.
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Age and Rate of the Sinistral Movement along the Dead Sea Rift
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La Géologie d’une partie du Liban Sud
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Old Shore Lines of Palestine
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