On joints and paleostresses associated with folds along the Syrian Arc in the Negev

Dov Bahat

On joints and paleostresses associated with folds along the Syrian Arc in the Negev

Dov Bahat

Department of Earth and Environmental sciences

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Abstract

A common feature of mesostructures that show WSW-WNW directions of maximum horizontal compression (σ_H) is that they generally occur in limestones and dolomites in Cenomanian-Turonian monoclines, whereas those mesostructures that point to NW-NNW σ_H directions are mainly joints that cut Eocene chalks in synclines. These observations are interpreted according to a "stress rotation" model which considers an early remote σ_H that was oriented WSW-WNW during the Cenomanian-Turonian period, and was later rotated clockwise to NW-NNW in the Senonian-Eocene.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-36
Number of pages	8
Journal	Israel Journal of Earth Sciences
Volume	48
Issue number	1
State	Published - 1 Dec 1999

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On joints and paleostresses associated with folds along the Syrian Arc in the Negev

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