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It is wrong to claim that the Dead Sea basin is widely regarded as a conventional pull-apart basin with a passive north-south extension along a fault jog. In fact, very mixed views have been expressed on this issue, and some observers believe that the Dead Sea basin is affected largely by extensional stress trending almost normal to the axis of the Dead Sea Rift. The high seismic velocity of salt does not necessarily invalidate research indicating that the salt diapirs of Mount Sdom and Lisan are underlain by magmatic diapirs.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1998
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Structural analysis of the Carolina-Inner Piedmont terrane boundary: implications for the age and kinematics of the central Piedmont suture, a terrane boundary that records Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana interactions
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A structural analysis was conducted on the Carolina-Inner Piedmont terrane boundary to determine the age and kinematics of the central Piedmont suture. Results showed that the Cross Anchor fault is an early Alleghanian thrust, the oldest fault in region and the central Piedmont suture. Moreover, the paleomagnetic data and metamorphic ages in the Carolina terrane suggest its Middle to Late Ordovician accretion to Laurentia.
Publication Name: Tectonics
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0278-7407
Year: 1998
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