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Tectonic indices of basaltic dykes orientation in the southern Syrian Coastal Range

Doctor Abdulkarim Al-abdalla

 

Abstract:

The study of volcanic dykes geometry in the southern Syrian coastal range shows that some of them are related to a tensional tectonic event, Albian dykes, and others are related to a strike-slip stress field like Pliocene dykes. Orientation of dykes is average between E-W to N-S with maximal direction of N 130- N 145. Drawing of strike-slip stress field depending upon  dykes orientation shows important deviation in σ1 strike from NW-SE to E-W in the vicinity of Levant fault during Pliocene time (4.4-5.4My)

 

Name of journal in which the research was published:

Tishreen University Journal.

 

Publication Date:

2015.

 

Link: 

Tishreen University Journal