Age and structure of the Levant basin, Eastern Mediterranean

A Segev, E Sass, U Schattner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Large parts of the Mediterranean were formed during the Mesotethys Ocean opening and
subsequently became land-locked in the midst of the Africa-Eurasia plate convergence …

Paleomagnetic-geodynamic mapping of the transition zone from ocean to the continent: A review

LV Eppelbaum, YI Katz - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The easternmost Mediterranean is a distinct transition zone from the ocean to the continent
located at the junction between the largest Earth's lithospheric segments: Eurasian and …

Sediment transport mechanisms revealed by quantitative analyses of seafloor morphology: New evidence from multibeam bathymetry of the Israel exclusive economic …

M Kanari, G Tibor, JK Hall, T Ketter, G Lang… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract This study synthesizes 15 years (2001–2016) of detailed multibeam hydrographic
mapping covering the entire 26,500 km 2 of the Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) …

Preliminary results based on geochemical sedimentary constraints on the hydrocarbon potential and depositional environment of a Messinian sub-salt mixed …

G Kontakiotis, V Karakitsios, JJ Cornée… - Mediterranean …, 2020 - Springer
This study details new geochemical analysis from an outcrop in Crete to improve
understanding of the hydrocarbon potential of the southern margin of the Hellenic Arc along …

What triggered the early-to-mid Pleistocene tectonic transition across the entire eastern Mediterranean?

U Schattner - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Subduction plays a fundamental role in plate tectonics and when interrupted it may trigger a
series of geodynamic and sedimentary responses. Synchronous structural modifications …

Eastern Mediterranean: combined geological–geophysical zonation and paleogeodynamics of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic structural-sedimentation stages

L Eppelbaum, Y Katz - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The eastern Mediterranean, in the Neo-Tethyan collision zone, consists mainly of the
Mesozoic terrane belt and the adjoining oceanic crust complex of the northern part of the …

Evaluating the segmented post-rift stratigraphic architecture of the Guyanas continental margin

M Casson, J Jeremiah, G Calvès, FV de Goyet… - Petroleum …, 2021 - earthdoc.org
Segmentation of the Guyanas continental margin of South America is inherited from the dual-
phase Mesozoic rifting history controlling the first-order post-rift sedimentary architecture …

Tectonic isolation of the Levant basin offshore Galilee-Lebanon–effects of the Dead Sea fault plate boundary on the Levant continental margin, eastern Mediterranean

U Schattner, Z Ben-Avraham, M Lazar… - Journal of Structural …, 2006 - Elsevier
The continental margin of the central Levant, offshore northern Israel and southern Lebanon
is characterized by a sharp continental-oceanic crustal transition, exhibited on the …

Levant jet system—effect of post LGM seafloor currents on Nile sediment transport in the eastern Mediterranean

U Schattner, M Gurevich, M Kanari, M Lazar - Sedimentary Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Sedimentary development of a continental margin is directly related to seafloor current
dynamics. Yet the linkage between the processes remains vague due to the different time …

Hierarchy of source-to-sink systems—Example from the Nile distribution across the eastern Mediterranean

U Schattner, M Lazar - Sedimentary geology, 2016 - Elsevier
A standard source-to-sink approach examines sediment transport along an imaginary axis
(regarded here as primary) extending between land, the continental margin and a nearby …