Asymmetry and basin migration in the dead sea rift

Zak, Israel; Freund, Raphael

doi:10.1016/0040-1951(81)90140-2

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“…Their geometry is represented by rhombshaped graben, rhomb-shaped half-graben, a series of coalescent basins (e.g. Schubert 1980;Zak & Freund 1981;Aydin & Nur 1985;Sylvester 1988;May et al 1993) or a more complex combination of fault blocks (Moore 1969;Junger 1976;Howell et al 1980;Kocák et al 1981;Royden 1985;Fodor 1995;Sims et al 1999;Nemčok et al 2005).…”

Section: Structural Architecturementioning

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Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

Němčok

Rybár

Sinha

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This paper provides an overview of the existing knowledge of transform margins including their dynamic development, kinematic development, structural architecture and thermal regime, together with the factors controlling these. This systematic knowledge is used for describing predictive models of various petroleum system concept elements such as source rock, seal rock and reservoir rock distribution, expulsion timing, trapping style and timing, and migration patterns. The paper then introduces individual contributions to this volume and their focus.

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Section: Structural Architecturementioning

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Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

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Rybár

Sinha

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“…Most significantly, the broad-valley erosional stage (or the nontectonic interlude) is well documented by the late Miocene pause in shear movement on the Dead Sea Rift when Jordanian drainages flowed across the rift to the Mediterranean Sea (Zak and Freund, 1981).…”

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Geology of the Arabian Peninsula; shield area of western Saudi Arabia

Brown¹,

Schmidt²,

Huffman³

1989

Professional Paper

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“…It is assumed that simultaneous formation of these basins is the result of pull-aparts development caused by the Arabian plate left-lateral slip along the faults, whose direction deviates slightly eastward from the valley direction. It is assumed that similar mechanism formed the Dead Sea basin (Zak and Freund, 1981). Clastic sediments and evaporites were accumulating in these basins since the late Miocene.…”

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“…These sediments pushed up evaporites like in the diapirs of the southern Dead Sea basin (Zak and Freund, 1981). The process resulted in the formation of tier of uplifted morphostructures: Massada and Gesher in the Kinnarot basin, and Zaharet el-Qurein, Dir Alla and Mandasa in the Jericho basin (Fig.…”

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The morphotectonic structure of the lower Jordan Valley – an active segment of the Dead Sea Rift

Belitzky¹

2002

Stephan Mueller Spec. Publ. Ser.

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Abstract. The pioneering morphotectonic study of young structures and movements in the central segment of the Dead Sea Rift, along the lower Jordan Valley, included analysis of the relief, drainage network, and remote sensing images. The Dead Sea Rift is the major transform along which the Arabian plate has moved sinistrally with respect to the African plate about 100 km from the Neogene to the Recent. The lower Jordan Valley surface is covered by the late Pleistocene Lisan lacustrine Formation and by the Holocene clastic deposits. The transform in the lower Jordan Valley is composed of three major segments: northern Kinnarot, southern Jericho, and the connecting them Malih. The Kinnarot and the Jericho segments were formed under transtension and both trend N-S; in them elongated pull-apart basins have developed. In these basins clastics and evaporites were accumulating since the Late Miocene. The NNE-trending Malih segment was formed under transpression that formed the Malih uplift. Uplifted and subsided areas identified along the lower Jordan Valley indicate vertical rather than lateral motions: almost no evidence of lateral displacement was found there. Dominance of vertical motions suggests that the neotectonic regime was governed by continuous N-S extension of the Israel-Sinai plate and by transverse movements during the Arabian plate "escape". Locations of earthquakes are concentrated in the Shomeron Triangle. This can be explained by rejuvenation of the Triangle faults induced by ongoing N-S extension of the Sinai sub-plate. N-S extension on the west results in decrease of the rate of the lateral motion along the transform in the lower Jordan Valley.

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Asymmetry and basin migration in the dead sea rift

Cited by 118 publications

References 8 publications

Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

Geology of the Arabian Peninsula; shield area of western Saudi Arabia

The morphotectonic structure of the lower Jordan Valley – an active segment of the Dead Sea Rift

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Asymmetry and basin migration in the dead sea rift

Cited by 118 publications

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Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

Transform margins: development, controls and petroleum systems – an introduction

Geology of the Arabian Peninsula; shield area of western Saudi Arabia

The morphotectonic structure of the lower Jordan Valley &#8211; an active segment of the Dead Sea Rift

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