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Seismicity and active tectonics of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau
(Cornell University, 1984)Available geophysical and geological data are analyzed with additional new data to further the understanding of the fundamental tectonic processes involved in the Himalayan-Tibetan continental collision zone. Seismicity ... -
The 1759 earthquake in the Bekaa valley: Implications for earthquake hazard assessment in the eastern Mediterranean region
(American Geophsyical Union, 1989)Analysis of macroseismic data based on primary sources for large, though infrequent, historical earthquakes (Ms > 6.5) that occurred along an approximately 350-km-long segment of the northern part of the Dead Sea fault ... -
Crustal shortening in the Palmyride fold belt, Syria, and implications for movement along the Dead Sea fault system
(American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1990)The Palmyride fold belt is a northeast-trending, 400 by 100 km transpressive belt in central Syria embedded in the northern Arabian platform, bounded to the north by the Aleppo plateau and to the south by the Rutbah uplift. ... -
Bouguer gravity trends and crustal structure of the Palmyride mountain belt and surrounding northern Arabian platform in Syria
(Geological Society of America (GSA), 1990)This study examines the crustal structure of the Palmyrides and the northern Arabian platform in Syria by two- and three-dimensional modeling of the Bouguer gravity anomalies. Results of the gravity modeling indicate that: ... -
Seismic reflection structure of intracratonic Palmyride fold-thrust belt and surrounding Arabian platform, Syria
(American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 1990)Seismic reflection and drillhole data from central Syria provide a detailed view of the subsurface structure (10-15 km depth) of the relatively little studied intracratonic Palmyride fold and thrust belt. The data set, ... -
Crustal evolution of the northern Arabian Platform beneath the Syrian Arab Republic
(Cornell University, 1991)Newly released geological and geophysical data from the Syrian Arab Republic are used to document the geological history of the northern Arabian platform in the Middle East. The primary observation of this synthesis is the ... -
Northern Arabian platform transect across the Palmyride mountain belt, Syrian Arab Republic, Global Geoscience Transect 1
(Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere and the American Geophysical Union, 1991)This transect traverses central Syria for approximately 450 km from the Iraqi border in the southeast to the Turkish border in the northwest (see transect location map and appendix note 1) and is one of three transects ... -
Lithospheric structure of the western United States and the Tibetan Plateau: Implications on their mechanism of uplift
(Cornell University, 1991)This dissertation seeks to determine the upper mantle structure and the mechanisms responsible for the Cenozoic uplift of the high terranes located near plate boundaries: the Tibetan Plateau and western North America. The ... -
Balanced cross sections, seismic stratigraphy, and structural interpretation of the intracontinental Palmyride fold belt, Syria
(Cornell University, 1991)The Palmyride fold belt in central Syria is the result of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic inversion of a Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic intraplate trough located within the northern Arabian platform. Detailed analysis of available ... -
Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation inferred from seismic stratigraphy in the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust belt, Syria
(Geological Society of America (GSA), 1992)The Palmyride fold belt in central Syria is an intracontinental northeast-trending, 400 by 100 km transpressive belt embedded in the northern Arabian platform. During the Late Paleozoic and most of the Mesozoic the region ... -
Crustal structure of central Syria: The intracontinental Palmyride Mountain belt
(Elsevier Science, 1992)Along a 450 km transect across central Syria seismic reflection data, borehole information, potential field data and surface geologic mapping have been combined to examine the crustal structure of the northern Arabian ... -
Structure of the intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt in Syria and its relationship to nearby Arabian plate boundaries
(Cukurova University, 1992)The intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt strikes NE and is located within the northern Arabian platform. The belt is about 400 km in length and about 100 km in width. Abundant data, including seismic reflection and ... -
Upper crustal velocity structure and basement morphology beneath the intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust belt and north Arabian platform in Syria
(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society and The Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, 1993)The intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust belt, which is the site of an inverted Mesozoic rift, is sandwiched between two crustal blocks, the Aleppo plateau in the north and the Rutbah uplift in the south. The 400 x 100 ... -
Stratigraphy and structure of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression
(Elsevier Science, 1993)Along a 450 km transect across central Syria seismic reflection data, borehole information, potential field data and surface geologic mapping have been combined to examine the crustal structure of the northern Arabian ... -
Sn to Sg conversion and focusing along the Atlantic margin, Morocco: Implications for earthquake hazard evaluation
(American Geophysical Union, 1993)Digital data from a telemetered, short-period seismic network in Morocco provide a new perspective for understanding the cause of severe shaking and macroseismic reports in Morocco produced by large, offshore earthquakes ... -
Tectonic evolution of the northern Arabian plate in western Syria
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)The primary geologic structures of the northern Arabian plate in western Syria include the intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt and the interplate boundary of the Dead Sea transform fault system. The Palmyride belt ... -
Bouguer gravity and crustal structure of the Dead Sea transform fault and adjacent mountain belts in Lebanon
(Geological Society of America, 1993)The northern extension of the Dead Sea transform fault in southern Lebanon bifurcates into several faults that cross Lebanon from south to north. The main strand, the Yammouneh fault, marks the boundary between the Levantine ... -
Seismic fabric and 3-D upper crustal structure of the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold belt, Syria
(American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 1993)The Palmyride fold belt, a 400 X 100 km transpressive belt in central Syria that is the northeastern arm of the Syrian Arc, which includes the Negev fold belt in the Sinai, is the result of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic ... -
Continental margin evolution of the northern Arabian platform in Syria
(American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 1993)Synthesis of available geological and geophysical data in the Syrian Arab Republic permits a descriptive account of the pre-Cenozoic geologic history of the northern Arabian platform. The northern Arabian platform appears ... -
The intraplate Euphrates fault system - Palmyrides mountain belt junction and relationship to Arabian plate boundary tectonics
(Editrice Compositori, Rome Italy, 1995)Based on an extensive, recently released dataset of seismic reflection profiles and well logs, we document and map a northwest-southeast oriented graben of about 20 km width located beneath the Euphrates depression in ...
