Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-965-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-965-2016
Research article
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20 Jun 2016
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2016

Seismic structure beneath the Gulf of Aqaba and adjacent areas based on the tomographic inversion of regional earthquake data

Sami El Khrepy, Ivan Koulakov, Nassir Al-Arifi, and Alexey G. Petrunin

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Three-dimensional seismic structures beneath the Gulf of Aqaba are presented for the first time for the southern part of the Dead Sea. A regional earthquake tomography method is applied to P and S waves data. The new results indicate new perspectives suggesting an oceanic nature of the crust in the northern part of the Red Sea, disagreeing with the hypothesis of a gradual stretching of the continental crust.