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Structural expression of a fading rift front: a case study from the Oligo-Miocene Irbid rift of northwest Arabia
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, Haifa University, Mt. Carmel, Haifa
31905, Israel
Amit Segev
Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel, Jerusalem 95501,
Israel
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Uri Schattner
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H.
Charney School of Marine Sciences, Haifa University, Mt. Carmel, Haifa
31905, Israel
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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.
Plate-scale rifting is frequently expressed by the subsidence of structural basins along an...
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