Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Gulf of Suez and the northwestern Red Sea

Christian, Michel; D'estevou, P. Ott; Purser, B. H.; Burollet, Pierre-Félix; Jarrige, Jean-Jacques; Orszag-Sperber, F.; Philobbos, E. R.; Plaziat, Jean-Claudé; Prat, Philippe; Richert, Jean-Paul; Roussel, Nicolas; Thiriet, Jean-Paul

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“…The tectonic pattern of the subject region is inherited from the basement tectonics of the ancient Nubian-Arabian shield, that received its main structural imprint during Late Pre-Cambrian orogenic phases (Bayer et al, 1988;Montenat et al, 1988).…”

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“…This set of faults represents the the ancient Nubian-Arabian Shield (AI-Sayari and of faults (Erytrean trend), two other inherited fault trends played an important role in the rifting process: the submeridian (N00 °-020°; Aqaba direction) and the N100°-120 ° (Duwi direction) Miocene fault trends (Montenat et al, 1988). The first NNE-SSW set of transcurrent faults allowed the anticlockwise motion of the Arabian peninsula from the African margin, while the WNW-ESE set caused many irregularities in the coastlines of the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez.…”

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“…The tectonic setting is completed by the NE-SW and E-W (Tethyan trend) elongated and germanotype domal structures related to the Syrian Arc phase of Cretaceous-Eocene time which strongly affected the North and North-West regions of the area (Schiirmann, 1971;Montenat et al, 1988).…”

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“…The triple junction area includes the mouth of the Gulf of Suez and shows a high rate of seismicity related to a tectonic pattern composed by two major trends of faults: the Pre-Cambrian inherited set of faults oriented N140 °, parallel to the Gulf of Suez rift, and the submeridian N00°-N20 ° set parallel to the Aqaba-Wadi Araba transform (Montenat et al, 1988;Colletta et al, 1988).…”

Section: The Gulf Of Aqaba and Wadi Araba Provincementioning

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Seismotectonic regionalization of the Red Sea area and its application to seismic risk analysis

1992

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A seismological evaluation of the Red Sea margin is presented in this contribution based on the concept of seismotectonic regionalization. The geology and the tectonic structure are critically reviewed to define regions of homogeneous seismicity in the study area, and available seismicity data are implemented to estimate the seismic parameters of the region. The results of the study are applied to evaluate the seismic hazard of an offshore platform site.

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“…Although there is some disagreement about the exact location of the continent-ocean boundary in the Red Sea, most researchers are in general agreement that a small ocean basin with organized sea-floor spreading center has been formed in its central-southern portions, whereas the northern Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez might still be in the syn-rift phase, with no oceanic crust (Cochran 1981;Montenat et al 1988). In the central and southern Red Sea, the mid-ocean ridge is characterized in the median valley with an axial trough that may reach water depths of more than 2000m, and by a basaltic oceanic crust with magnetic anomalies indicating the breakup age and formation of new crust in the last few million years (Ligi et al 2011).…”

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Architecture of rifted continental margins and break-up evolution: insights from the South Atlantic, North Atlantic and Red Sea–Gulf of Aden conjugate margins

Mohriak

Leroy

2012

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To cite this version:Webster Ueipass Mohriak, Sylvie Leroy. Architecture of rifted continental margins and break-up evolution: insights from the South Atlantic, North Atlantic and Red Sea-Gulf of Aden conjugate margins. Special Publication -Geological Society of London, 2012, 369, pp.1-40. <10.1144/SP369.17>. !" " " ARCHITECTURE OF RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGINS AND BREAKUP EVOLUTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, NORTH ATLANTIC AND RED SEA -GULF OF ADEN CONJUGATE MARGINS

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Thermochronometric evidence for diffuse extension and two-phase rifting within the Central Arabian Margin of the Red Sea Rift

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Stöckli

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Numerical time‐temperature models derived from a 2‐D network of apatite and zircon (U‐Th)/He ages reveal a three‐stage thermotectonic history for the central Arabian rift flank (CARF) of the Red Sea Rift (RSR) system. The pre‐rift Arabian‐Nubian Shield existed as part of a passive Paleo‐Tethyan margin until a widespread tectonic event at ~350 Ma exhumed the proto‐CARF to mid‐to‐upper crustal structural levels. After remaining thermally stable through the Mesozoic, the first phase of RSR extension began with a distinct rift pulse at ~23 Ma when fault blocks across a 150 km wide area were exhumed along a diffuse set of rift‐parallel faults from an average pre‐rift flank depth of 1.7 ± 0.8 km. This rift onset age is mirrored in thermochronometric and sequence stratigraphic analyses elsewhere along the Red Sea Nubian and Arabian margins, confirming that rifting occurred concomitantly along the full Red Sea‐Gulf of Suez rift system. Diffuse lithospheric extension lasted for 8 Myr before a second rift pulse at ~15 Ma, coincident with regional stress realignment, transferred active faulting basinward toward the modern RSR axial trough. CARF time‐temperature models indicate that the prevalent rift style during both RSR extensional phases was one of localized, structurally controlled block faulting and contemporaneous dike injection, not wholesale rift flank uplift.

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Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Gulf of Suez and the northwestern Red Sea

Cited by 109 publications

References 9 publications

Seismotectonic regionalization of the Red Sea area and its application to seismic risk analysis

Seismotectonic regionalization of the Red Sea area and its application to seismic risk analysis

Architecture of rifted continental margins and break-up evolution: insights from the South Atlantic, North Atlantic and Red Sea–Gulf of Aden conjugate margins

Thermochronometric evidence for diffuse extension and two-phase rifting within the Central Arabian Margin of the Red Sea Rift

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