1980
DOI: 10.1038/285220a0
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Sinistral movement along the Gulf of Aqaba — its age and relation to the opening of the Red Sea

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“…Lartet (1869) interpreted the movement along the Dead Sea Rift to be strike-slip as the major movement and normal as a minor one. This interpretation was subsequently supported by Quennel (1956 and, Freund (1965), Freund (1966 and1981), Freund et al (1968 and, Neev (1975), Bartov et al (1980), Garfunkel (1981) and Garfunkel et al (1981). Others (Vorman, 1961;Michelson, 1982;Bahat and Rabinovitch, 1983) claim that the rift evolved as a combination of vertical (dip-slip) and horizontal (left-lateral) movement.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 73%
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“…Lartet (1869) interpreted the movement along the Dead Sea Rift to be strike-slip as the major movement and normal as a minor one. This interpretation was subsequently supported by Quennel (1956 and, Freund (1965), Freund (1966 and1981), Freund et al (1968 and, Neev (1975), Bartov et al (1980), Garfunkel (1981) and Garfunkel et al (1981). Others (Vorman, 1961;Michelson, 1982;Bahat and Rabinovitch, 1983) claim that the rift evolved as a combination of vertical (dip-slip) and horizontal (left-lateral) movement.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 73%
“…This extension axis agrees in general with the trend of σ 3 of the Dead Sea Stress Field (DSS). A system of long NW-SE trending dykes has been identified in the southern Sinai and dated by K-Ar at 18-22 Ma (Bartov et al, 1980). Eyal and Reches (1983) reveal a similar stress regime in the western margins of the Dead Sea Rift in the Israel-Sinai subplate.…”
Section: T4: Nw-se S Hmaxmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Global positioning system (GPS) observations provide rates of the present left-lateral displacement along the DST fault in the range of 3.5-4.0 mm per year (Wdowinski et al, 2004;Gomez et al, 2007), but geological data provide evidence for faster rates ranging from 5 to 10 mm per year of long-term displacements in the past starting from the initiation of the DST 20-15 Ma ago (Garfunkel, 1981;Chu and Gordon, 1998). On the basis of geological information, the total displacement in a segment of the DST between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea has been estimated to be 105 km (Freund et al, 1968;Bartov et al, 1980;Garfunkel et al, 1981). To the north of the Dead Sea, the displacement is considerably less (Garfunkel, 1981).…”
Section: Geological Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Parts of the shield are unconformably overlain by platform sediments, such as in Jordan (e.g., Stoeser and Frost, 2006). The shield remained a stable continent for most of its history until the opening of the Red Sea rift at about 30 Ma and the formation of the DST starting at about 17-20 Ma (Freund et al, 1970;Bartov et al, 1980;Sobolev et al, 2005). Thermal effects associated with these young geodynamic processes…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%