Translocated Plio-Pleistocene drainage systems along the Arava fault of the Dead Sea transform

Ginat, Hanan; Enzel, Yehouda; Avni, Yoav

doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(97)00165-0

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“…Those structures branch from the western Dead Sea fault partly following older Turonian-Senonian faults (Ginat et al, 1998). Those assumptions are supported by studies by Freund et al (1968); Kafri and Heimann (1994) and Matmon et al (1999), who proved the adjustment of the drainage system to morpho-tectonic features in the study area.…”

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Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Mallast

Gloaguen

Geyer

et al. 2011

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In this paper we present a semi-automatic method to infer groundwater flow-paths based on the extraction of lineaments from digital elevation models. This method is especially adequate in remote and inaccessible areas where in-situ data are scarce. The combined method of linear filtering and object-based classification provides a lineament map with a high degree of accuracy. Subsequently, lineaments are differentiated into geological and morphological lineaments using auxiliary information and finally evaluated in terms of hydro-geological significance. Using the example of the western catchment of the Dead Sea (Israel/Palestine), the orientation and location of the differentiated lineaments are compared to characteristics of known structural features. We demonstrate that a strong correlation between lineaments and structural features exists. Using Euclidean distances between lineaments and wells provides an assessment criterion to evaluate the hydraulic significance of detected lineaments. Based on this analysis, we suggest that the statistical analysis of lineaments allows a delineation of flow-paths and thus significant information on groundwater movements. To validate the flow-paths we compare them to existing results of groundwater models that are based on well data.

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confidence: 73%

Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Mallast

Gloaguen

Geyer

et al. 2011

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Based on an airphoto reconnaissance of the DST and earthquake catalogue information, Garfunkel et al (1981) suggested that present-day slip rate has been slower (1.5-3.5 mm/yr) when compared to Plio-Pleistocene rates. A recent study of offset alluvial fans near Ar-Risha (Ginat et al, 1998) estimate long term slip rates between 3.0-7.5 mm/yr since the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene. However, at that location, only relative age control was used.…”

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Deformation at a strike-slip, stepover zone along the southeastern margin of the Dead Sea pullapart basin, Jordan

Atallah¹,

Niemi²,

Mustafa³

2002

Stephan Mueller Spec. Publ. Ser.

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Abstract. Detailed stratigraphic and structural study of the southeast Dead Sea basin along the Dead Sea Transform in Jordan was carried out in order to determine the deformation history and processes of pullapart basin formation. Fieldwork focused on mapping and collecting structural orientation data in the area of the intersection of the NE-trending, strike-slip Wadi Araba fault (WAF) and the NW-trending, dip-slip Khunayzira fault. The recent movement on the WAF shows spectacular polished fault planes, slickensides, and Riedel and conjugate Riedel shears. During the Late Quaternary the position of the WAF shifted west toward the basin. This is evident from a series of pressure ridges and exposed positive flower structures that do not deform the lacustrine deposits of the Lisan formation (63-15 ka). The Khunayzira fault makes a prominent, curvilinear 50 m-high scarp that trends SE-NW. In the study area, the scarp is highly eroded and sinuous. Slip on the Khunayzira fault branches onto four fault traces near the junction with the WAF. No cross-cutting relationship is observed between the Khunayzira and WAF. These data contradict the idea that strike-slip motion on the WAF terminates and is transferred to dip slip along the Khunayzira fault. Our data agree with the more complex model of the Dead Sea pull-apart basin, that explain the activity of the transverse faults as younger than the formation of the basin. Paleostress calculations based on fault-slip data of the WAF and the faults of the Upper Cretaceous rock show two stress fields. The first is characterized by WNW compression and NNE tension, which represent the Syrian Arc stress field. The second is characterized by NNW compression and ENE tension, which represents the Dead Sea stress field.

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“…15 km-wide topographic low formed by shearing along the transform fault separating the Arabian and Sinai plates [11,26] (Fig. 2).…”

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Historical accesses to UNESCO cultural heritages: engineering geology for the sustainable conservation of Petra Siq

Margottini

Spizzichino

2017

Innov. Infrastruct. Solut.

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Translocated Plio-Pleistocene drainage systems along the Arava fault of the Dead Sea transform

Cited by 86 publications

References 12 publications

Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Deformation at a strike-slip, stepover zone along the southeastern margin of the Dead Sea pullapart basin, Jordan

Historical accesses to UNESCO cultural heritages: engineering geology for the sustainable conservation of Petra Siq

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