Author(s): Abdulkader M. Abed
Article publication date: 1985-09-01
Vol. 3 No. 2 (yearly), pp. 122-134.
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Keywords
Jordan, geology, rift
Abstract
The Jordan Rift makes the northern segment of the East African- Red Sea Syrian Rift system in which the opening of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea is continuing here as a transcurrent movement. For other geologists, the Jordan Rift is a graben made by vertical tectonics which have been operating on this Rift since the Precambrian times. Their evidence is based on: (1) the distribution and abundance of dykes in the basement, (2) the distribution of Precambrian sediments and (3) the thickness and distribution of the Lower Cambrian Basal conglomerates. Careful field examination of these evidences showed that they are not well founded. Thus, casting more doubt on the weakened graben tectonic hypothesis.