Paleostress Evolution in the Mrah Anticline «Northern Palmyride fold belt. (Syria)»
published by Damascus University
in 2002
in Geology
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
The study was made in the region of the NNE-SSW trending Mrah anticline.
This anticline is one of the main anticlines belonging to the Northern part of the
Palmyride fold belt, lying amid Syria, in the northern Arabian plate. The lithostratigraphic
column of the study area consists of the marine sediments of
upper Cretaceous and lower Paleogene age.
The field study involved the description and measurement of the brittle
deformations in ٢٥ sites, which are distributed stratigraphically and
geographically in the different parts of the Mrah anticline. Data processing and
field observations led to a reconstruction of the principal stresses, which
affected the region, and their evolution relative to the main folding phase
(Neogene-Quaternary).
References used
Al-Maleh,A. Kh. and Mouty, M.(١٩٨٨): The Sedimentologic and Paleogeographic evolution of the Palmyridian region during the Cretaceous. In Saffarini G.A. et al. (editors). Geology of Jordan and adjacent areas; Proc. ٣rd Jordanian Geol. Conf., Spec. Publ. ٣, Jordanian Geological Association, P ٢١٣-٢٤٤. (in Arabic).
Al-Saad, D.; Sawaf,T.; Gebran, A.; Barazangi, M.; Best, J. and Chaimov, T. (١٩٩٢): Crustal structure of central Syria: the intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt
Angelier,J. (١٩٧٩) : Determination of the mean principal directions of stresses for a given fault population