Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba

Autor:	Nicolas Lyberis
Rok vydání:	1988
Předmět:	Plate tectonics Tectonics Geophysics Rift Transform fault Compression (geology) Late Miocene Quaternary Neogene Geology Seismology Earth-Surface Processes
Zdroj:	Tectonophysics. 153:209-220
ISSN:	0040-1951
DOI:	10.1016/0040-1951(88)90016-9
Popis:	The tectonic evolution of the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba can be determined using fault slip data. Early opening of the Suez rift in the lower Miocene resulted from NNE-SSW extension, oblique to the rift trend. Subsequent tectonic events began in the Late Burdigalian and were associated with ENE-WSW extension which determined the shape of the Suez rift. In the Gulf of Aqaba the movements are younger. The Late Miocene motion is associated with a strike-slip stress pattern (040° direction of extension associated with a 130° compression) which produced the left lateral motion between the Arabian plate and the Sinai peninsula. Since the end of the Miocene the faulting is the result of an E-W extension, which indicates a rotation of the regional stress pattern in the vicinity of the transform fault.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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