Book contents
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Quaternary of the Levant
- Part I: The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins
- 2 Tectonic and Physiographic Settings of the Levant
- 3 Landscape Evolution along the Dead Sea Fault and its Margins
- 4 Climate of the Levant
- 5 Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Levant
- 6 Palaeomagnetic Geochronology of Quaternary Sequences in the Levant1
- 7 Pliocene or Pleistocene, That Is the Question – New Constraints from the Eastern Mediterranean
- Part II: Palaeoclimates
- Part III: Archaeology of Human Evolution
- Part IV: Palaeoecology
- Part V: Quaternary Geomorphology
- Part VI: Humans in the Levant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
5 - Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Levant
from Part I: - The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
Book contents
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Quaternary of the Levant
- Part I: The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins
- 2 Tectonic and Physiographic Settings of the Levant
- 3 Landscape Evolution along the Dead Sea Fault and its Margins
- 4 Climate of the Levant
- 5 Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Late Cenozoic Volcanism in the Levant
- 6 Palaeomagnetic Geochronology of Quaternary Sequences in the Levant1
- 7 Pliocene or Pleistocene, That Is the Question – New Constraints from the Eastern Mediterranean
- Part II: Palaeoclimates
- Part III: Archaeology of Human Evolution
- Part IV: Palaeoecology
- Part V: Quaternary Geomorphology
- Part VI: Humans in the Levant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
The Levant’s late Cenozoic volcanism is part of the western Arabia volcanic province, where. volcanism commenced at its south, in association with the emplacement of the Afar plume. There is no clear temporal pattern and basalts as old as Late Oligocene (26 Ma) and as young as the 100-200 years exist both in Yemen and in Jordan. Nevertheless, temporal patterns are identified locally: the northward migration of volcanism in the Harrat ash Shaam, and along the northern reaches of the Dead Sea transform (DST), northern Syria, or the eastward shift of Pleistocene activity in the northern Harrat ash Shaam, from eastern Israel to southern Syria. The lavas are typical intra-plate continental magmas (mostly alkali-basalts to basanites), and they are associated with the rifting along the Red Sea and the Azraq-Sirhan Graben, as well as the Dead Sea transform. The magmas’ source is either the lithospheric mantle or a mixture of lithospheric and sub-lithospheric sources. The Pleistocene magmas tend to be more alkaline and enriched with incompatible elements, compared with Pliocene basalts, which is attributed either to lower degree of melting or to more constrained/shallower sources. Both explanations imply decreasing intensity of magmatism with time; this is supported by the lower distribution and volume of the Pleistocene magmatism, compared with earlier periods.
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