Geological evolution of the Red Sea: historical background, review, and synthesis

W Bosworth - The Red Sea: The formation, morphology …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Red Sea is part of an extensive rift system that includes from south to north the
oceanic Sheba Ridge, the Gulf of Aden, the Afar region, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the …

The Betic ophiolites and the Mesozoic evolution of the Western Tethys

E Puga, A Díaz de Federico, M Fanning, JM Nieto… - Geosciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Betic Ophiolites consist of numerous tectonic slices, metric to kilometric in size, of
eclogitized mafic and ultramafic rocks associated to oceanic metasediments, deriving from …

Constraining the opening of the Red Sea: Evidence from the Neoproterozoic margins and Cenozoic magmatism for a volcanic rifted margin

RJ Stern, PR Johnson - … , palaeoenvironment and archaeology of the Red …, 2019 - Springer
As the Earth's best-known example of an active, incipient ocean basin, the Red Sea
provides crucial information about continental rifting and the tectonic transition from …

Late Oligocene and Miocene different seaways to the Red Sea–Gulf of Suez rift and the Gulf of Aqaba–Dead Sea basins

A Segev, Y Avni, J Shahar, R Wald - Earth-science reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Intense analysis of geological, geophysical and particularly new available biostratigraphic
data from the Gulf of Suez (GS), Red Sea (RS) Gulf of Aqaba (GA) and the Eastern …

Evidence for anomalous mantle upwelling beneath the Arabian Platform from travel time tomography inversion

I Koulakov, E Burov, S Cloetingh, S El Khrepy, N Al-Arifi… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a new model of P-velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath the Arabian
Peninsula, Red Sea, and surrounding regions. This model was computed with the use of …

Episodic sea-floor spreading in the Southern Red Sea

KA Almalki, PG Betts, L Ailleres - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Red Sea represents the most spectacular example of a juvenile ocean basin
on the modern Earth. Synthesis of regional aeromagnetic data, gravity data, seismic …

Punctiform breakup and initial oceanization in the central red sea rift

YD Sang, BMT Adam, CF Li, L Huang, YL Wen… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Central Red Sea Rift is a natural laboratory to study the transition from rifting to
spreading. Based on new reflection seismic profiles and gravity modeling, we examined the …

The distribution of Moho depths beneath the Arabian plate and margins

J Mechie, Z Ben-Avraham, MH Weber, HJ Götze… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study three new maps of Moho depths beneath the Arabian plate and margins are
presented. The first map is based on the combined gravity model, EIGEN 06C, which …

Mantle convection patterns reveal the mechanism of the Red Sea rifting

AG Petrunin, MK Kaban, S El Khrepy, N Al‐Arifi - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new model of the stress state and present‐day tectonics of the Red Sea Rift
(RSR) based on an instantaneous geodynamic mantle flow model. The initial density and …

Integration of gravity, magnetic, and seismic data for subsalt modeling in the Northern Red Sea

C Le Magoarou, K Hirsch, C Fleury, R Martin… - Interpretation, 2021 - library.seg.org
Rifts and rifted passive margins are often associated with thick evaporite layers, which
challenge seismic reflection imaging in the subsalt domain. This makes understanding the …