Structural expression of a fading rift front: a case study from the Oligo-Miocene Irbid rift of northwest Arabia

Wald, Reli; Segev, Amit; Ben-Avraham, Zvi; Schattner, Uri

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-225-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-225-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-225-2019

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31 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2019

Structural expression of a fading rift front: a case study from the Oligo-Miocene Irbid rift of northwest Arabia

Reli Wald, Amit Segev, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Uri Schattner

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RC1: 'Minor revision', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Authors Reply to Referee Comment #1', Reli Wald, 12 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Wald et al Structural expression of a fading rift front a case study from the Oligo-Miocene Irbid rift of northwest Arabia', Piotr Krzywiec, 16 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Authors Reply to Referee 2', Reli Wald, 30 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'Authors Reply to Referee 2_ Revised new manuscript', Reli Wald, 30 Nov 2018

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AR by Reli Wald on behalf of the Authors (14 Dec 2018) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Dec 2018) by Michal Malinowski

RR by Piotr Krzywiec (21 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish as is (23 Dec 2018) by Michal Malinowski

ED: Publish as is (23 Dec 2018) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

AR by Reli Wald on behalf of the Authors (26 Dec 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Plate-scale rifting is frequently expressed by the subsidence of structural basins along an axis, but postdating tectonic and magmatic activity mostly obscures them. A 3-D subsurface imaging and facies analysis down to 1 km reveals uniquely preserved Galilean basins subsiding along a failing rift front in two main stages. Rifting within a large releasing jog (20–9 Ma), followed by localized grabenization off the Dead Sea fault plate boundary (9–5 Ma), prevents them from dying out peacefully.