The Levantine Countries: The Geology of Syria and Lebanon (Maritime Regions)

Beydoun, Z. R.

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“…The western boundary includes the Red Sea rift in the southwest and the left-lateral Dead Sea leaky transform fault system along the Levantine margin to the northwest. Syria is located on the northern flank of the Arabian plate, and the diverse structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Syria region reflects the complex interactions between these 3 Cenozoic plate boundaries and pre-Cenozoic structures (e.g., Beydoun, 1977;Lovelock, 1984;McBride et al, 1990;Best et al, 1990;Chaimov et al, 1990Chaimov et al, , 1992Al-Saad et al, 1992). This paper presents a north-south crustal transect that traverses eastern Syria for approximately 325 km from the Iraqi border in the south to the Turkish border in the north (Figs. 1 and 2).…”

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“…In the Rutbah and Qamichli uplifts the sedimentary section is mainly composed of Lower Paleozoic rocks 3.5-4.5 km thick, whereas in the Euphrates depression and Abd el Aziz structural zone, Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks predominate, with thicknesses of greater than 4 km. This is one of the main distinguishing characteristics of the geology of Syria, and it indicates that subsidence in the different tectonic provinces of Syria was not synchronous (Ponikarov et al, 1967;Beydoun, 1977 and1981;Lovelock, 1984;SPC unpublished regional reports, 1976SPC unpublished regional reports, -1988.…”

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“…8). The compression also produced strike-slip movement along the main Al Furat fault (Ponikarov, 1967;Beydoun, 1977;Ala and Moss, 1979;Lovelock, 1984;Hempton, 1987). The renewed Late Cretaceous transgression that continued into the Cenozoic covered the remaining paleohighs and pre-Triassic strata.…”

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Stratigraphy and structure of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression

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A crustal-scale geotransect across the northern Arabian platform, oriented north-south in eastern Syria, reveals an alternating series of basement uplifts and basins separated by predominantly transpressional fault zones above an effectively uniform crust. Four major tectonic provinces are crossed along a 325 x 100 km corridor that extends from the Iraqi border in the south to the Turkish border in the north: the Rutbah uplift, the Euphrates depression, the Abd el Aziz structural zone, and the Qamichli uplift. These features are the manifestations of reactivated Pre-Cenozoic structures that responded to forces acting along nearby Arabian plate boundaries, particularly Cenozoic convergence and collision along the margins of the northern Arabian platform, i.e., the Bitlis suture and the East Anatolian fault in southern Turkey and the Zagros suture in Iran and Iraq.The database for this study consists of 3000 km of industry seismic reflection data, 28 exploratory wells, geologic, and Bouguer gravity maps. The deep crustal structure and, in part, the basement geometry along this transect are inferred from two-dimensional modeling of 2 Bouguer gravity, whereas the shallow (about 8 km) structure is constrained primarily by well and seismic data. 3. While Euphrates subsidence continued throughout the Cenozoic, the east-west trending Abd el Aziz structure began to be inverted into a fault-bounded tilted block since the Miocene, perhaps as a response to the last episode of intense Miocene collision along the nearby Bitlis and Zagros suture zones.

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“…2) is characterized by Quaternary deposits of alluvial material while further inland and closer to the site small outcrops of Pliocene Piacenzien marine deposits are found (Abdel-Rahman, 2002;Abdel-Rahman and Nader, 2002;Abdel-Rahman and Nassar, 2004;Beydoun, 1977;Dubertret, 1962;Ponikarov, 1963). The inland zone of the Akkar Plain and further east (region of the Homs gap) is mostly characterized by Pliocene alkaline basalts while the coastal zone to the south of the Plain around Tripoli in Lebanon is composed of Neogene lacustrine deposits.…”

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Foreign ceramic tradition, local clays: the Handmade Burnished Ware of Tell Kazel (Syria)

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…The Lebanese carbonate platform is cross-cut by a major transform fault (known as the Yammouneh Fault; Figure 1), along with other relatively minor faults (Beydoun 1977;Khair et al 1993). Several compressional regimes related to the transpressional movement along the Yammouneh transform developed a number of folds located in several areas across the country (Grif®ths et al 2000).…”

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Characterization of the Lebanese Jurassic–Cretaceous carbonate stratigraphic sequence: a geochemical approach

Abdel-Rahman

Nader

2002

Geological Journal

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The Lebanese crustal segment is part of a much larger carbonate platform deposited along the northwestern margin of the Arabian Plate, in the eastern Mediterranean region. It is made up mainly of Jurassic–Cretaceous carbonate rocks. Most of this stratigraphic sequence is exposed in the Nahr Ibrahim canyon and surrounding areas in central Lebanon. The various formations, from the oldest unit (the Lower Jurassic Kesrouane Formation) to the Upper Cretaceous Chekka Formation, are made up of different types of carbonate rocks including micritic limestone, medium‐ to coarse‐grained dolostone, biomicritic (chalk), biosparrudite limestone, micritic dolostone, pelmicrite, marl and marly limestone.Results of this first chemical investigation on the Lebanese carbonate platform show that the micritic limestone of the Kesrouane Formation is relatively enriched in Ca, Na and Sc, and has low rare‐earth element (REE) contents. The marl units of the Hammana Formation are enriched in Al, Fe, K, Ti, Rb, Ga, Nb, U, Th and REE. The chalk of the Chekka Formation shows the highest phosphorus content. A significant increase in P and Sr contents with time (from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous carbonate units) characterizes the Lebanese sequence; this is interpreted to be related to a possible increase in continental weathering rates during the Mesozoic. Enrichment in Ni, Ti and Nb in some formations is interpreted to be linked to Mesozoic volcanism in central Lebanon. The Cretaceous formations are subdivided according to their REE patterns into two distinct groups: limestones (Mdairej, Sannine and Maameltain formations) which are depleted in REE; and marl/chalk (Hammana and Chekka formations) which are significantly enriched in REE. On several geochemical variation diagrams, such as the K–Ti–P triangular plot, the Lebanese Mesozoic carbonate formations are found to occupy distinct compositional fields. Thus, carbonate geochemistry could prove to be a powerful tool (especially when combined with petrographic data) in characterizing and correlating carbonate formations (chemical stratigraphy), particularly in regions where field evidence may be limited. Results of this study have significant implications for the entire carbonate platform that covers a large part of the eastern Mediterranean region. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Levantine Countries: The Geology of Syria and Lebanon (Maritime Regions)

Cited by 41 publications

References 12 publications

Stratigraphy and structure of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression

Stratigraphy and structure of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression

Foreign ceramic tradition, local clays: the Handmade Burnished Ware of Tell Kazel (Syria)

Characterization of the Lebanese Jurassic–Cretaceous carbonate stratigraphic sequence: a geochemical approach

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