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Raham Conglomerate – new evidence for Neogene tectonism in the southern part of the Dead Sea Rift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Z. Garfunkel ,
J. Bartov ,
Y. Eyal  and
G. Steinitz
Z. Garfunkel
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
J. Bartov
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Y. Eyal
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
G. Steinitz
Affiliation:
Department of GeologyHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Summary

A newly discovered, mainly continental, deformed, Neogene formation – the Raham Conglomerate – records the early existence of the southern part of the Dead Sea Rift. The field relations, the predominance of clasts derived from formations which have been virtually completely eroded, and the presence of pebbles of Precambrian rocks, all attest that a considerable structural relief – possibly exceeding 2 km – already existed in the Middle (?) Miocene. Brackish marine fossils indicate that an ancestral Gulf of Elat (Aqaba) also already existed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 55 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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