The Lisan Peninsula is located within the Dead Sea basin which represents the plate boundary between African and Arabian plates . This basin constitutes a good example of a pull - apart basin because of its large dime...The Lisan Peninsula is located within the Dead Sea basin which represents the plate boundary between African and Arabian plates . This basin constitutes a good example of a pull - apart basin because of its large dimensions , its structural simplicity and its active subsidence . The gravity data reveal that the Dead Sea basin can be divided into segments, each of them about 30 km long in N -S direction , where the Lisan Peninsula represents the deepest one (9 km thick Pleistocene sediments ), overlying about 6 km thick Mesozoic sediments . In addition . 20 km of extension was predicted along the Dead Sea basin , which indicates that the Dead Sea basin should be about 3.3 Ma in age . Furthermore . the Precambrian basement under the Lisan area is characterized by high susceptibility contrast that is related to continuous tectonic activity in the region .展开更多
文摘The Lisan Peninsula is located within the Dead Sea basin which represents the plate boundary between African and Arabian plates . This basin constitutes a good example of a pull - apart basin because of its large dimensions , its structural simplicity and its active subsidence . The gravity data reveal that the Dead Sea basin can be divided into segments, each of them about 30 km long in N -S direction , where the Lisan Peninsula represents the deepest one (9 km thick Pleistocene sediments ), overlying about 6 km thick Mesozoic sediments . In addition . 20 km of extension was predicted along the Dead Sea basin , which indicates that the Dead Sea basin should be about 3.3 Ma in age . Furthermore . the Precambrian basement under the Lisan area is characterized by high susceptibility contrast that is related to continuous tectonic activity in the region .
