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![Structural maps (values are metres below sea level) showing the development and burial of the Jaffa Basin. The dashed white lines in (d) emphasize that the present topography preserves a curved structure around the Jaffa Basin depocentre, whereas the bathymetry does not (nearly straight lines).]()
![Isopach map of Late Eocene to present sediments (Saqiye and Kurkar groups) in the Jaffa Basin based on the Israeli oilwell database (Fleischer & Varshavsky 2002). Red dots are wells that penetrate the base Saqiye Group. Black dots are wells that did not reach the base. The faults west of the Jaffa Basin are based on seismic mapping as demonstrated in Figures 11 and 12.]()
![Tectonic interpretation of the kinematic relationship between the NW–SE-trending Suez and Qishon–Sirhan rifts and the margin-parallel fault system that formed the Jaffa Basin during the early stage of Africa–Arabia breakup. It should be noted that when the plate motion jumped inland to the Dead Sea Transform, the Suez Rift and the Jaffa Basin were abandoned, whereas the Carmel Fault along the Qishon Graben was reactivated. The pattern of the Qishon–Sirhan rift is taken from Schattner et al. (2006).]()
![DD′ is a regional geological cross-section from the Dead Sea to the Levant basin crossing the Jaffa Basin at its centre. CC′ is a parallel cross-section from the Jordan Valley to the Levant basin crossing the Jaffa Basin near its northern edge, where the coastal plain fault does not exist (for section location see Figs 6 and 13). In the offshore area cross-sections CC′ and DD′ are geoseismic. The original interpreted time sections are shown in Figures 11 and 12. The base Senonian horizon (top Judea group laterally changing to top Talme Yafe Formation) is highlighted by a thicker line.]()
![Map summarizing all the features coinciding in time and space in and around the Jaffa Basin. The purple contour schematically represents the rhombic structure of the base Saqiye Group surface, which fits the shape of the Judea Group truncation zone (green zone). Together they indicate a fault-bounded basin. The less rhombic and larger structure of the base Yafo and base Kurkar surfaces indicates gradual development of the basin toward an elliptic bowl-shaped structure. The curvature around the basin is preserved in the current topography but not in the current bathymetry, which is governed by high-volume Nile-derived sediments.]()
![The top Judea Group structural map (Fleischer & Gafsou 2003). Bold lines represent major faults; fine lines represent minor faults. Red, faults defined as active or potentially active (Bartov et al. 2002). Blue, reverse faults associated with Syrian Arc folds. Black, normal faults. The grey area at the eastern rim of the Jaffa Basin represents a truncation band where the top of the Judea Group is truncated by the base Saqiye Group. West of that band the Saqiye Group unconformably covers the Talme Yafe Formation. 1, Pardes Hanna water well; 2, Netanya 1 oilwell; 3, Hadera 1 oilwell; 4, Caesarea 1 oilwell; 5, Ashdod 3 oilwell; 6, Netanya 2 oilwell; 7, Hof Asdod 1 oilwell. BR is the Bet Rosh outcrop referred to in Figure 10.]()
![Stratigraphic table of the study area based on previous publications (Bein & Gvirtzman 1977; Ginzburg & Gvirtzman 1979; G. Gvirtzman 1990; Buchbinder et al. 1993; Buchbinder & Zilberman 1997; Fleischer & Varshavsky 2002; Z. Gvirtzman 2003). Absolute ages for the Jurassic and Cretaceous after Gradstein et al. (1995) and for the Cenozoic after Berggren et al. (1995). Highlighted surfaces are base Kurkar Group, base Yafo Formation, and base Saqiye Group, which refer to the structural maps of Figure 5; and also the base Mount Scopus Group, which refers to the structural map of Figure 6 and the highlighted horizon of Figure 8. The significant modification introduced in this chronostratigraphic scheme relative to previous ones is that the absence of Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary sediments in the coastal plain is interpreted as the result of late Tertiary erosion at the eastern rim of the Jaffa Basin rather than a lack of deposition.]()
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Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 01 March 2008
Journal of the Geological Society (2008) 165 (2): 563–578.
... accumulated and at a middle level between the two faults a local basin was formed and filled with a 2500 m thick section. That basin, termed here the Jaffa Basin, provides good age control. It was initiated in the Mid–Late Oligocene, was mainly active in the Miocene and was completely buried by sediments...
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Structural maps (values are metres below sea level) showing the development... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
Fig. 5. Structural maps (values are metres below sea level) showing the development and burial of the Jaffa Basin. The dashed white lines in ( d ) emphasize that the present topography preserves a curved structure around the Jaffa Basin depocentre, whereas the bathymetry does not (nearly
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Isopach map of Late Eocene to present sediments (Saqiye and Kurkar groups) ... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
Fig. 4. Isopach map of Late Eocene to present sediments (Saqiye and Kurkar groups) in the Jaffa Basin based on the Israeli oilwell database ( Fleischer & Varshavsky 2002 ). Red dots are wells that penetrate the base Saqiye Group. Black dots are wells that did not reach the base. The faults
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Tectonic interpretation of the kinematic relationship between the NW–SE-tre... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
Fig. 14. Tectonic interpretation of the kinematic relationship between the NW–SE-trending Suez and Qishon–Sirhan rifts and the margin-parallel fault system that formed the Jaffa Basin during the early stage of Africa–Arabia breakup. It should be noted that when the plate motion jumped inland
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DD′ is a regional geological cross-section from the Dead Sea to the Levant ... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
Fig. 8. DD′ is a regional geological cross-section from the Dead Sea to the Levant basin crossing the Jaffa Basin at its centre. CC′ is a parallel cross-section from the Jordan Valley to the Levant basin crossing the Jaffa Basin near its northern edge, where the coastal plain fault does
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Map summarizing all the features coinciding in time and space in and around... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
Fig. 13. Map summarizing all the features coinciding in time and space in and around the Jaffa Basin. The purple contour schematically represents the rhombic structure of the base Saqiye Group surface, which fits the shape of the Judea Group truncation zone (green zone). Together they indicate
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The top Judea Group structural map ( Fleischer & Gafsou 2003 ). Bold li... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
faults. The grey area at the eastern rim of the Jaffa Basin represents a truncation band where the top of the Judea Group is truncated by the base Saqiye Group. West of that band the Saqiye Group unconformably covers the Talme Yafe Formation. 1, Pardes Hanna water well; 2, Netanya 1 oilwell; 3, Hadera 1
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Stratigraphic table of the study area based on previous publications ( Bein... Available to Purchase
in Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 01 March 2008
erosion at the eastern rim of the Jaffa Basin rather than a lack of deposition.
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Evidence of Clastic Evaporites In the Canyons of the Levant Basin (Israel): Implications For the Messinian Salinity Crisis Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of Sedimentary Research
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
Published: 01 November 2013
Journal of Sedimentary Research (2013) 83 (11): 942–954.
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Origin and nature of the rapid late Tertiary filling of the Levant Basin Available to Purchase
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 01 April 2011
Geology (2011) 39 (4): 355–358.
.... Offshore Egypt, this unit builds the Nile Delta, reaching a thickness of ∼4 km ( Said, 1981 ; Segev et al., 2006 ). Offshore Israel, this unit completely fills the Jaffa Basin ( Gvirtzman et al., 2008 ) and obscures the coastal plain step under the present-day continental shelf ( Fig. 2...
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Earthquakes in the Holy Land Available to Purchase
Publisher: Seismological Society of America
Published: 01 June 1928
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1928) 18 (2): 73–103.
... 1534 Ar Syria, Palestine 1546 P,B,V Same locality Syria; several cities ruined, great earthquake wave 1569 M Syria 1577 Ar Syria and Palestine; 32,000 victims Same locality; 30,000 victims 1640 P Palestine : Jerusalem 1656 B Palestine: Jaffa, Siehe, and Rama (Ramleh earthquake 1666 P, B, V wave, hed...
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80 m.y. of folding migration: New perspective on the Syrian arc from Levant Basin analysis Available to Purchase
Journal: Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 20 December 2017
Geology (2018) 46 (2): 175–178.
...://doi.org/10.1029/2011TC002994 . Gvirtzman , Z. , Zilberman , E. , and Folkman , Y. , 2008 , Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel : Journal of the Geological Society , v. 165 , p. 563 – 578 , https...
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New age constraints on the evolution of the Mt Carmel structure and its implications on a Late Miocene extensional phase of the Levant continental margin Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 01 January 2010
Journal of the Geological Society (2010) 167 (1): 203–216.
... of structural highs, the general trend of this erosive surface slopes towards the basin (i.e. to the SE), indicating Plio-Pleistocene uplift of the inland region (Carmel–Samaria) and basin subsidence offshore (Jaffa basin). Many studies have discussed the questions of when Mt Carmel was uplifted...
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Tsunami Hazard Evaluation of the Eastern Mediterranean: Historical Analysis and Selected Modeling Available to Purchase
Publisher: Seismological Society of America
Published: 01 June 2007
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2007) 97 (3): 705–724.
..., Missyaf fault; P, Palmerides; PTF, Paphos Transform fault; RcF, Rachaiya fault; RoF, Roum fault; SF, Serghaya fault; YF, Yammaouneh fault. Localities: A, Antioch (Antakya); Ak, Akko; Al, Ashkelon; Ap, Allepo; As, Ashdod; B, Beirut; C, Caesarea; Ca, Cairo; D, Damascus; G, Gaza; H, Homs (Hims); J, Jaffa; K...
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Exploring the relationship between sedimentary transport systems and basin dynamics: A case study from the Levant Basin (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) before, during, and after the Messinian Available to Purchase
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 16 October 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (3-4): 1423–1436.
.../98TC00235 . Gvirtzman , Z. , Zilberman , E. , and Folkman , Y. , 2008 , The Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of : Journal of the Geological Society , v. 165 , p. 563 – 578 , https://doi.org/10.1144...
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Retreating Late Tertiary shorelines in Israel: Implications for the exposure of north Arabia and Levant during Neotethys closure Open Access
Journal: Lithosphere
Publisher: GSW
Published: 01 April 2011
Lithosphere (2011) 3 (2): 95–109.
... of the Levant passive margin during the Late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel : Journal of the Geological Society of London , v. 165 , p. 563 – 578 , doi:10.1144/0016-76492006-200 . Hall J.K. , 1993 , The GSI digital terrain model (DTM) project completed...
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Multiphase deformation of a multilayered salt giant: Salt tectonics in the Levant Basin Available to Purchase
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 06 June 2025
GSA Bulletin (2025)
... Congress on Sedimentology: International Association of Sedimentologists, p. 160 191. Gvirtzman, Z., Zilberman, E., and Folkman, Y., 2008, Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 165...
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Late Mesozoic sediment provenance on Georges Bank: Enlargement of river drainages to the Atlantic Ocean in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Available to Purchase
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Published: 15 June 2019
AAPG Bulletin (2019) 103 (6): 1321–1350.
... of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel : Journal of the Geological Society , v. 165 , no. 2 , p. 563 – 578 . Hawthorne , F. C. , R. Oberti , G. E. Harlow , W. V. Maresch , R. F. Martin , J. C. Schumacher , and M. D. Welch , 2012 , Nomenclature of the amphibole...
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Tracing Oligocene–Miocene source-to-sink systems in the deep Levant Basin: A sandstone provenance study Available to Purchase
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 17 August 2023
GSA Bulletin (2024) 136 (3-4): 1587–1604.
.... , 2008 , Reactivation of the Levant passive margin during the late Tertiary and formation of the Jaffa Basin offshore central Israel : Journal of the Geological Society , v. 165 , p. 563 – 578 , https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492006-200 . Gvirtzman , Z. , Steinberg , J. , Bar , O...
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Diagenesis and Compositional Partitioning of Quaternary Cool-water Carbonate Aeolianites: Southeastern Australia Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of Sedimentary Research
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
Published: 03 April 2018
Journal of Sedimentary Research (2018) 88 (4): 431–448.
...-and storm-dominated, open cool-water carbonate platform ( James and Bone 2011 ). Dominant wind and swell-wave approach is from the southwest year-round, with storms occurring in the winter and spring, from June to November. Cape Jaffa lighthouse observation statistics indicate typical wave heights of > 2...
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