... the Zohar gas field, and 1 in the northern Jordan rift. Two of the coastal plain wells aimed at the Neogene Saqiye Group. The Emeq Hula 1 well tested the Pleistocene fill of the rift valley in a section which is rich in carbonaceous lake and swamp deposits. Gas shows were reported from the Emeq Hula 1 well...

...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...

..., they nevertheless constitute reservoir beds which could be potential producers in the coastal and offshore hinge-line belt ( Bein, 1971 ). A stratigraphic and environmental study of Triassic strata is nearing completion. A comprehensive study of late Eocene to early Pleistocene sediments, the Saqiye Group...

... of approximately 2,500 m, is made up of an upper Tertiary to Holocene sedimentary sequence ( Gvirtzman, 1970 ; Mart and Ben Gai, 1982). The upper Tertiary rocks belong to the Saqiye group ( Gvirtzman, 1970 ) and include, in the studied area, four formations (Derin et al, 1979b). The lowermost formations...

.... in the Late Eocene–Oligocene (thickness and duration in Figure 2 ). In addition, the nature of deposition throughout the region changed, from pelagic chalks that had characterized the 60 m.y. of the Senonian–Middle Eocene, to hemipelagic marls (Saqiye Group; Gvirtzman and Buchbinder, 1978 ), which have...

... drilled in the coastal plain, 2 of which aimed at the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous and 2 at the Neogene Saqiye Group. The Sherif 1 well was an old well drilled deeper in the Negev and aimed at the Paleozoic, and the Gurim 3 was drilled near the Zohar gas field. Oil shows were reported from the Barne’a 1...

... et al . 1995 ). Our study focuses on the stratigraphic column of the Late Tertiary section, locally recognized as the Saqiye Group ( Gvirtzman 1970 ). The complete Cenozoic section is summarized in a stratigraphic chart (Fig. 2 ) and illustrated in Figures 4 , 5 , 6 . Calibration of seismic...

..., 1968 ; Garfunkel, 1988 ). The overlying Avedat Group was deposited in the early to middle Eocene when the sea had reached as far as Egypt and part of Arabia ( Garfunkel, 1988 ). The late Eocene–Pliocene Saqiye Group, which is the focus of this study, is mainly composed of greenish to gray shales...

.... 37 , p. 147 – 175 . Gvirzman , G. , 1970 , The Saqiye Group (late Eocene to early Pleistocene) in the coastal plain and Hashefela regions, Israel : Geol. Survey Israel Rept. OD/5/67 , 180 p. (in Hebrew, English summary). Gvirzman , G. , and B. Buchbinder , 1978...

... , Submarine slumping and initiation of turbidity currents, in A. F. Richards, ed., Marine geotechnique : Urbana, Illinois , Univ. Illinois Press , p. 139 – 220 . Nachmias , J. , 1969 , Source rocks of the Saqiye Group sediments in the coastal plain of Israel—a heavy mineral study : Israel Jour...

.... Pub. 14 , p. 120 - 138 . Gvirtzman , G. , 1970 , The Saqiye Group (late Eocene to early Pleistocene) in the Coastal Plain and Hashephela regions, Israel : PhD thesis, Hebrew Univ. , 170 p. Gvirtzman , G. , and A. Klang , 1972 , A structural and depositional hinge line...

... ). Under the Kurkar Group, the Miocene Saqiye Group (mostly shale and marl) fills a series of canyons that had cut across the continental margin during several deep incision events, the last during the Messinian (late Miocene) Salinity Crisis ( Druckman et al. , 1995 ; Bar, 2010 ). These deep canyons...