The Dead Sea Fault is an active transform fault linking opening in the Red Sea with collision
in the Taurus/Zagros Mountains. Motion is left-lateral and estimated at approximately 5–7 …

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

The Dead Sea basin is located along the left-lateral transform boundary between the
Arabian and Sinai plates. Its structure and history are known from surface geology, drilling …

Restraining-and releasing bends with similar morphology and structure have been
described by many previous studies of strike-slip faults in a variety of active and ancient …

Scaled sandbox models have successfully simulated the geometries and progressive
evolution of pull-apart basins developed in a weak sedimentary cover above right-stepping …

Since Vening‐Meinesz's realization that the East African Rift represented an extensional, not
compressional, feature and since the widespread acceptance of plate tectonics two decades …

The Araba valley lies between the southern tip of the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. This
depression, blanketed with alluvial and lacustrine deposits, is cut along its entire length by …

In this study, we investigate thermo-mechanical consequences of erosion of rift shoulders.
Conventional models imply post-rift cooling that results in subsidence and strengthening of …

The story of the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho--three cities situated along a
major fault line extending 1,100 kilometers from the Red Sea to Turkey--is the oldest such …

This paper presents an updated summary of the history and shallow structure of the Dead
Sea transform (DST) and its plate tectonic context. The DST formed in the Early Miocene as …