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Phatrabbitzz
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Message 1 of 18 (74207)
12-19-2003 3:04 AM


Can someone please describe me Israel's geology in the context of plate tectonic. Explain how it had formed. If it is a convergent boundary or divergent boundary, which plates have been involved and how?
TIA

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Message 7 of 18 (74410)
12-20-2003 4:02 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Phatrabbitzz
12-19-2003 3:04 AM


Does the following sum it all up or am I missing something?
Explanation of Formation:
The origin of the Dead Sea Rift, which is the plate which Israel is located on, has been described as a rift defined by 2 sets of normal faults, and there are 2 theories explaining the origin of the Dead Sea.
1. The Graben Theory (Vertical Movement)
The Dead Sea is a graben formed by vertical movement along parallel faults extending N-s and along flexture; each fault caused a small down thrown to the center of the graben forming step faulting. As a result of this movement the central part of the graben was lowered relative to its shoulders forming the Dead Sea, the Jordan valley and Wadi Araba.
2. The Horizontal Movement Theory
The Dead Sea Rift was formed mainly as a result of horizontal displacement a long normal faults. In which 2 faults with horizontal left lateral displacement, overlapped in the present Dead Sea area. The northword horizontal movement of the Arabian plate relative to the Sinai plate resulted in a rhombus shaped structures in the area of overlap between the two faults forming the Dead Sea.
Type of Boundary:
The Middle East is part of a larger geological zone called the East Africa Rift Valley, where plates are pulling apart, and thus it is a divergent boundary.
What plates were involved and how:
The plates that have been involved would be the Dead Sea Rift and the Arabian plate. Also these plates were involved due to the fact that the Dead Sea Transform is a plate boundary separating the Arabian plate from the African plate and connects the divergent plate boundary in the Red Sea to the convergent plate boundary in the Red Sea to the convergent plate boundary in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey.
Thanks in Advance!

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Message 11 of 18 (74524)
12-21-2003 5:40 AM
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12-20-2003 11:31 AM


Re: Depends on your source
All sources used will be given credit, I'm not worried about that. I just want to know if I got the answers to my question right, because if it's wrong then I'm not going to use that source, thus no credit will be given. That's why I'm asking you guys to look over it and tell me if I missed something or if something is wrong.

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Phatrabbitzz
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Message 13 of 18 (74602)
12-21-2003 7:28 PM
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12-21-2003 4:12 PM


quote:
In this portion, I would write about the characteristics of the Dead Sea and adjacent area, such as it's elevation, local geology (underlying rocks and local faults), what makes it special, and the plates that occur in that area.
The thing is that I'm suppose to explain how Israel's geology in the context of plate tectonic formed, not the Dead Sea Rift, but I can't find anything about it and non of the links posted here really nail that question on the head.
quote:
Is this paper only about the East African Rift or about the boundary where the Dead Sea occurs?
This paper is about Israel's geology in the context of plate tectonic, not about the Dead Sea, and the question was which plates have been involved and how...
Can someone give me a straight forward explanation of how Israel's geology in the context of plate tectonic formed, and which plates have been involved?
TIA

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Phatrabbitzz
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Message 15 of 18 (74606)
12-21-2003 8:03 PM
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12-21-2003 7:44 PM


Thank you Coragyps!
Now how did the African, and the Arabian plate form? I'm more interested in the African plate since Israel is on it.

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