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Science 12 October 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4415, pp. 214 - 216
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4415.214
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Continental Breakup by a Leaky Transform: The Gulf of Elat (Aqaba)

ZVI BEN-AVRAHAM 1, ZVI GARFUNKEL 2, GIDEON ALMAGOR 3, and JOHN K. HALL 3

1 Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Ltd., Haifa, and Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2 Department of Geology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
3 Marine Geology Division, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem

The floor of the Gulf of Elat consists of five distinct deeps. Its structure is controlled by faulting which has produced rhomb-shaped grabens. The gulf is a newly formed plate boundary between Arabia and Sinai.

Submitted on February 5, 1979
Revised on May 16, 1979


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