...S. Omara Abstract Phosphate deposits occur in folded upper Cretaceous beds and in essentially horizontal Eocene beds in Syria, and in upper Cretaceous rocks in Egypt. The folded type is related to a mobile belt, characterized by orogenic movements, and the unfolded type represents stable shelf...

...S. Omara ABSTRACT Diapiric structures have been recorded in Egypt and Syria, in the mobile belt, south and east of the Mediterranean. They are associated with anticlinal areas, mainly of the Syrian Arc System, that trend southwest from Syria (Palmyrean Chain) across Palestine and Northern Sinai...

... that formed along the length of what was then the southern margin of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Consensus is that Alpine age compression then forced inversion of these half-grabens to form the well-known Syrian Arc structures that stretch from the Western Desert of Egypt to NE Syria. As new data has become...