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CRC Press
Delivering a synthesis of almost one hundred and fifty years of research into the Jordan Rift Valley, this genuinely comprehensive text presents a model explaining the tectonic evolution of this part of the Syrian-African Rift Valley, which may affect opinions regarding the geotectonic pattern of the entire western Levant. Also including datings and paleoenvironmental reconstructions for all... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements for permissions to reproduce data and photographs;
- Introduction: The singularity of the Jordan Rift Valley;
- History of ideas and research;
- The Jordan Rift Valley at present;
- The pre-neogene geology of the near East;
- The lithostratigraphy of the Embryonic and Eritrean stages;
- Palynostratigraphy, continuous sequences and unconformities;
- Chronostratigraphy, paleogeography and environments of the Embryonic and Eritrean stages;
- Geophysics;
- Structural history;
- Tectonics: Models and debates;
- Stratigraphy of the artefact-bearing sequences;
- Paleoecology of man;
Appendix: The nature and history of motion along the Dead Sea Transform (Rift); References; References Index; Subject Index.
Biography
Aharon Horowitz
