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Article: SYRIA - The Tectonic Background.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Syria lies in the western continental margin of the Arabian Plate. In pre-Mesozoic times, this Levantine margin developed along a subsidiary arm of the spreading Tethys in the north (not far from the Ionian Sea of our time) where a seaway was linked to the Indian Ocean. Several tectonic developments during the Paleozoic and great earth movements in the Early Mesozoic era brought about elevations in Syria called paleohighs.
Fragments of the Early Paleozoic caused the Rutbah and Aleppo Highs. The former was an extension of the Hail-Jawf swell of Saudi Arabia and the latter extended from the Khleissia High of Iraq. In later times the two paleohighs were separated by ...
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