Journal articles: 'Bassin Levant'

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Heitzmann, Annick. "Marly-le-Roi (Yvelines). 3e pavillon du Levant - Bassin des Boules." Archéologie médiévale, no. 45 (December 1, 2015): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/archeomed.7611.

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Ben-Avraham, Zvi, Avihu Ginzburg, Jannis Makris, and Lev Eppelbaum. "Crustal structure of the Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean." Tectonophysics 346, no. 1-2 (February 2002): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951(01)00226-8.

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Ali, M. "First record of wedge sole, Dicologlossa cuneata (Actinopterygii: Pleuronectiformes: Soleidae), from the Levant Basin (eastern Mediterranean)." Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 45, no. 4 (December 31, 2015): 417–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/aip2015.45.4.11.

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Segev, Amit, Eytan Sass, and Uri Schattner. "Age and structure of the Levant basin, Eastern Mediterranean." Earth-Science Reviews 182 (July 2018): 233–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.05.011.

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Steinberg, J., A. M. Roberts, N. J. Kusznir, K. Schafer, and Z. Karcz. "Crustal structure and post-rift evolution of the Levant Basin." Marine and Petroleum Geology 96 (September 2018): 522–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.05.006.

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Reiche, Sönke, Christian Hübscher, and Manuel Beitz. "Fault-controlled evaporite deformation in the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean." Marine Geology 354 (August 2014): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.002.

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Hawie, Nicolas, Christian Gorini, Remy Deschamps, Fadi H. Nader, Lucien Montadert, Didier Granjeon, and François Baudin. "Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northern Levant Basin (offshore Lebanon)." Marine and Petroleum Geology 48 (December 2013): 392–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.08.004.

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Paraschos, P. E. "Offshore Energy in the Levant Basin: Leaders, Laggards, and Spoilers." Mediterranean Quarterly 24, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 38–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10474552-2018997.

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Tayber, Ziv, Aaron Meilijson, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Yizhaq Makovsky. "Methane Hydrate Stability and Potential Resource in the Levant Basin, Southeastern Mediterranean Sea." Geosciences 9, no. 7 (July 11, 2019): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9070306.

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To estimate the potential inventory of natural gas hydrates (NGH) in the Levant Basin, southeastern Mediterranean Sea, we correlated the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ), modeled with local thermodynamic parameters, with seismic indicators of gas. A compilation of the oceanographic measurements defines the >1 km deep water temperature and salinity to 13.8 °C and 38.8‰ respectively, predicting the top GHSZ at a water depth of ~1250 m. Assuming sub-seafloor hydrostatic pore-pressure, water-body salinity, and geothermal gradients ranging between 20 to 28.5 °C/km, yields a useful first-order GHSZ approximation. Our model predicts that the entire northwestern half of the Levant seafloor lies within the GHSZ, with a median sub-seafloor thickness of ~150 m. High amplitude seismic reflectivity (HASR), correlates with the active seafloor gas seepage and is distributed across the deep-sea fan of the Nile within the Levant Basin. Trends observed in the distribution of the HASR are suggested to represent: (1) Shallow gas and possibly hydrates within buried channel-lobe systems 25 to 100 mbsf; and (2) a regionally discontinuous bottom simulating reflection (BSR) broadly matching the modeled base of GHSZ. We therefore estimate the potential methane hydrates resources within the Levant Basin at ~100 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) and its carbon content at ~1.5 gigatonnes.

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Gasse, F., L. Vidal, A. L. Develle, and E. Van Campo. "Hydrological variability in northern Levant over the past 250 ka." Climate of the Past Discussions 7, no. 3 (May 10, 2011): 1511–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-7-1511-2011.

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Abstract. The Levant features sharp climatic gradients from North to South and from West to East resulting in a large environmental diversity. The lack of long-term record from the northern Levant limits our understanding of the regional response to glacial-interglacial boundary conditions in this key area. The 250 ka paleoenvironmental reconstruction presented here is a first step to fill this geographical gap. The record comes from a 36 m lacustrine-palustrine sequence cored in the small intra-mountainous karstic basin of Yammoûneh (northern Lebanon). The paper combines times series of sediment properties, paleovegetation, and carbonate oxygen isotopes, to yield a comprehensive view of paleohydrologic-paleoclimatic fluctuations in the basin over the two last glacial-interglacial cycles. Efficient moisture was higher than today during interglacial peaks around 240, 215–220, ~130–120 ka and 11–9 ka (although under different Precipitation minus Evaporation balance). Moderate wetting events took place around 170, 150, 105–100, 85–75, 60–55 and 35 ka. The penultimate glacial period was generally wetter than the last glacial stage. Local aridity culminated from the LGM to 15 ka, possibly linked to water storage as ice in the surrounding highlands. An overall decrease in local water availability is observed from the profile base to top. Fluctuations in available water seem to be primarily governed by changes in local summer insolation controlled by the orbital eccentricity modulated by the precession cycle, and by changes in precipitation and temperature seasonality. Our record is roughly consistent with long-term climatic fluctuations in northeastern Mediterranean lands, except during the penultimate glacial phase. It shares some features with speleothem records of western Israel. Conversely, after 130 ka, it is clearly out of phase with hydrological changes in the Dead Sea basin. Potential causes of these spatial heterogeneities, e.g., changes in atmospheric circulation, regional topographic patterns, site-specific climatic and hydrological factors, are discussed.

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Kaniewski, David, Nick Marriner, Rachid Cheddadi, Joël Guiot, and Elise Van Campo. "The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant." Climate of the Past 14, no. 10 (October 22, 2018): 1529–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1529-2018.

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Abstract. The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe and prolonged drought of global extent. The event is recorded from the North Atlantic through Europe to Asia and has led scientists to evoke a 300-year global mega-drought. For the Mediterranean and the Near East, this abrupt climate episode radically altered precipitation, with an estimated 30 %–50 % drop in rainfall in the eastern basin. While many studies have highlighted similar trends in the northern Mediterranean (from Spain to Turkey and the northern Levant), data from northern Africa and the central-southern Levant are more nuanced, suggesting a weaker imprint of this climate shift on the environment and/or different climate patterns. Here, we critically review environmental reconstructions for the Levant and show that, while the 4.2 ka BP event also corresponds to a drier period, a different climate pattern emerges in the central-southern Levant, with two arid phases framing a wetter period, suggesting a W-shaped event. This is particularly well expressed by records from the Dead Sea area.

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Homberg, C., E. Barrier, M. Mroueh, W. Hamdan, and F. Higazi. "Basin tectonics during the Early Cretaceous in the Levant margin, Lebanon." Journal of Geodynamics 47, no. 4 (April 2009): 218–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2008.09.002.

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LIU, Xiaobing, Guangya ZHANG, Zhixin WEN, Zhaoming WANG, Chengpeng SONG, Zhengjun HE, and Zhiping LI. "Structural characteristics and petroleum exploration of Levant Basin in Eastern Mediterranean." Petroleum Exploration and Development 44, no. 4 (August 2017): 573–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1876-3804(17)30066-6.

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Marriner, Nick, and Christophe Morhange. "Geoarchaeological evidence for dredging in Tyre's ancient harbour, Levant." Quaternary Research 65, no. 1 (January 2006): 164–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2005.07.004.

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AbstractChrono-stratigraphic data from Tyre's ancient northern harbour delineate extensive dredging practices during the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods. Radiocarbon dates from four cores consistently cluster between ca. 500 B.C. and 1000 A.D. and indicate rapid rates of sedimentation in the basin, namely ∼10 mm/yr during the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods, compared to 0.5–1 mm/yr for the period 6000–4000 B.C. Absence of strata between 4000 B.C. and 500 B.C. is not consistent with a natural base-level sediment sink and cannot be interpreted as a depositional hiatus in the high-stand systems tract. Ancient dredging is further corroborated by persistent age-depth inversions within the fine-grained harbour facies. These data support removal of Middle Bronze Age to Persian period sediment strata, with deliberate overdeepening of the harbour bottom by Greco-Roman and Byzantine societies.

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Danko, Štefan, and Ervín Hrtan. "The first observation of the Levant sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes (Severtzov, 1850) in Slovakia." Slovak Raptor Journal 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10262-012-0065-8.

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Abstract On May 1 5, 201 2 an individual of Levant sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes was observed at the southern edge of Trebišov town in eastern Slovakia, situated in the Východoslovenská rovina Lowlands. The sighting was documented with photographs. This is the first recorded occurrence of this species in terms of the bird fauna of Slovakia. The present article describes in detail its distribution and breeding in eastern Hungary and western Romania, based on an isolated population in the Pannonian Basin at the north-western edge of its breeding range. The occurrence of the Levant sparrowhawk beyond the boundaries of its breeding range and outside the Pannonian Basin consists mostly of rare movements by young individuals (northern Moravia, central and northern Poland) far north of its breeding range. An adult male was observed in south-eastern Poland in the pre-breeding period, and in Slovakia an adult female was observed in the breeding period.

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Gvirtzman, Z., V. Manzi, R. Calvo, I. Gavrieli, R. Gennari, S. Lugli, M. Reghizzi, and M. Roveri. "Intra-Messinian truncation surface in the Levant Basin explained by subaqueous dissolution." Geology 45, no. 10 (August 8, 2017): 915–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g39113.1.

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Eruteya, Ovie Emmanuel, Moshe Reshef, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Nicolas Waldmann. "Gas escape along the Palmachim disturbance in the Levant Basin, offshore Israel." Marine and Petroleum Geology 92 (April 2018): 868–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.01.007.

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Nader, Fadi H., Lama Inati, Ramadan Ghalayini, Nicolas Hawie, and Samer Bou Daher. "Key geological characteristics of the Saida-Tyr Platform along the eastern margin of the Levant Basin, offshore Lebanon: implications for hydrocarbon exploration." Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles 73 (2018): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2516/ogst/2018045.

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More than 60 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas have been recently discovered in the Levant Basin (eastern Mediterranean region) offshore Cyprus, Egypt and Israel, Palestine. Un-explored areas, such as the Lebanese offshore, may yield additional discoveries. This contribution focuses the Saida-Tyr Platform (STP), an offshore geological feature adjacent to the southern Lebanese coastline – part of the eastern margin of the Levant Basin. First, an extensive synthesis of recent published research work, tackling crustal modeling, structural geology and stratigraphy will be presented. Then, a new local crustal model and the interpretation of seismic reflection specifically on the STP are discussed and emplaced in the context of the upcoming petroleum exploration activities in this region. Characteristic structural features form the limits of the STP which is believed to be an extension of the Arabian continent into the Levant Basin. Its westernmost limit consists of the extension of the crustal interface, previously termed “hinge zone”, where major plate-scale deformations are preferentially localized. The northward extension of this “hinge zone” beyond the STP can be mapped by means of major similar deformation structures (i.e. S-N-trending anticlines) and can be associated to the Levant Fracture System (LFS) – the northwestern border of the Arabian plate. The northern limit of the STP (i.e. the Saida Fault) is a typical E-W, presently active, structure that is inherited from an older, deeply rooted regional fault system, extending eastward throughout the Palmyra Basin. The STP is characterized by a variety of potential plays for hydrocarbon exploration. Jurassic and Cretaceous clastics and carbonates are believed to include reservoir plays, which could have been charged by deeper Mesozoic source rocks, and sealed by Upper Cretaceous marly layers. The edge of the Cretaceous carbonate platforms and potential carbonate buildups are well recognizable on seismic reflection profiles. The western and northern anticlinal structures bordering the STP are excellent targets for Oligo-Miocene biogenic gas charging systems. Based on integrating geodynamics, tectono-stratigraphic interpretations and petroleum systems analyses, such plays are well constrained and the exploration risk is therefore lowered.

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Fantalkin, Alexander, Israel Finkelstein, and Eli Piasetzky. "Iron Age Mediterranean Chronology: A Rejoinder." Radiocarbon 53, no. 1 (2011): 179–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200034469.

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This article is a rejoinder to a recent paper in this journal by van der Plicht et al. (2009) who use radiocarbon determinations from several sites in Israel, Italy, Spain, and Tunisia to advocate a High Chronology system for the entire Mediterranean Basin. We contend that they reached mistaken conclusions due to problematic selection of sites and data. We argue that a reliable way to provide absolute dates for the Iron Age in the central and western Mediterranean is by employing a combination of well-identified Greek pottery found in well-stratified sites and radiometric results from short-lived samples. For the time being, this combination exists only in the Levant, and provides an anchor for Greek chronology, which supports the Conventional Chronology for the Aegean Basin, which corresponds to the Low Chronology in the Levant.

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Cartwright, J. A., and M. P. A. Jackson. "Initiation of gravitational collapse of an evaporite basin margin: The Messinian saline giant, Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean." Geological Society of America Bulletin 120, no. 3-4 (March 1, 2008): 399–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b26081x.1.

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Wood, Barry G. M. "Rethinking post-Hercynian basin development: Eastern Mediterranean Region." GeoArabia 20, no. 3 (July 1, 2015): 175–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/geoarabia2003175.

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ABSTRACT The geological community has broadly accepted that the region of NE Africa and NW Arabia deformed under tension during the post-Hercynian disintegration of northern Gondwana. Further, it has also generally accepted that sedimentation occurred within extensional half-grabens that formed along the length of what was then the southern margin of the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Consensus is that Alpine age compression then forced inversion of these half-grabens to form the well-known Syrian Arc structures that stretch from the Western Desert of Egypt to NE Syria. As new data has become available (Enclosures I and II), there are indications that an alternative mechanism, founded in continuous compression rather than extension then compression, better explains the tectonics and sedimentary history of the region since the late Palaeozoic. Data from Syria, Jordan, the Levant and Egypt demonstrate that distinct post-Hercynian Orogeny, Tethyan and Alpine sequences (basins) lie on a final, deeply eroded and folded Hercynian Unconformity, and that this surface refolded post-Hercynian time to form the confining walls of a single trough extending from NE Syria to the Western Desert of Egypt. Prior to the deposition of the first Tethyan basin in the late Carboniferous, the Hercynian Unconformity surface deformed to establish a plate-scale arch, the Levant Arch, that extended from NE Syria and southern Turkey, over 1,500 km southwest to the three corners region of Egypt, Sudan and Libya. This arch refolded in the late Palaeozoic to form the early Levant Trough composed of the Palmyride Trough, its extension under the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, through the Sinai and into western Egypt. Contrary to the now established idea that the southern margin of the Carboniferous–Permian Tethyan Ocean was a “passive margin”, the trough and internally constrained basins, slowly narrowed and deepened under continuous compression from the southeast from at least the late Palaeozoic to the Present. Each internal, distinct basin sequence is well defined by long periods of slow, low-energy, laterally persistent, sedimentation, separated from underlying and overlying basin sequences by almost equally long periods of erosion or non-deposition, coincident with increased regional structuring and volcanism. Each new basin, following a cessation of this regional structural activity, found itself nested within its predecessor, with the older basin lying slightly counter-clockwise to the younger. It is proposed that counter-clockwise, regional (and basin) rotation was facilitated by newly documented NW-oriented cross-shears, with inter-basin periods of erosion or non-deposition due to whole-basin (regional) uplift, forced by trough narrowing. Tectonic-scale geologic features, such as cross-basin and regional shears, trough margin uplift and northwest migration, laterally extensive, sheet-like sedimentation, sediment feathering onto unfaulted margins, regional erosion related to whole-basin uplift and massive flank gravity sliding with resultant down-slope buckle folding, taken together, attest to compression as the driving agent. Whole-basin and regional, counter-clockwise rotation through time, suggests a constant direction of compression. Understanding the correlation of sedimentary fill to local and regional structural events brings new insight to the deformation of the northern regions of Gondwana during the closure of Tethyan oceans. This model may also apply on a larger scale of whole-plate deformation.

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Papadimitriou, N., C. Gorini, F. H. Nader, R. Deschamps, V. Symeou, and J. C. Lecomte. "Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the western margin of the Levant Basin (offshore Cyprus)." Marine and Petroleum Geology 91 (March 2018): 683–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.02.006.

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Gvirtzman, Zohar, Moshe Reshef, Orna Buch-Leviatan, Gavrielle Groves-Gidney, Zvi Karcz, Yizhaq Makovsky, and Zvi Ben-Avraham. "Bathymetry of the Levant basin: interaction of salt-tectonics and surficial mass movements." Marine Geology 360 (February 2015): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.12.001.

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Inati, Lama, Hermann Zeyen, Fadi Henri Nader, Mathilde Adelinet, Alexandre Sursock, Muhsin Elie Rahhal, and François Roure. "Lithospheric architecture of the Levant Basin (Eastern Mediterranean region): A 2D modeling approach." Tectonophysics 693 (December 2016): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.10.030.

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Steinberg, J., Z. Gvirtzman, Y. Folkman, and Z. Garfunkel. "Origin and nature of the rapid late Tertiary filling of the Levant Basin." Geology 39, no. 4 (March 8, 2011): 355–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g31615.1.

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Papadimitriou, Nikolaos, Remy Deschamps, Vasilis Symeou, Christine Souque, Christian Gorini, Fadi Henri Nader, and Christian Blanpied. "The tectonostratigraphic evolution of Cenozoic basins of the Northern Tethys: The Northern margin of the Levant Basin." Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles 73 (2018): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2516/ogst/2018085.

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The easternmost part of the Mediterranean corresponds to a tectonically complex region which is linked with the convergence between Africa and Eurasia. The tectonostratigraphic evolution of this region is poorly constrained because of the absence of exploration wells. Cyprus is a crucial area to assess the link between the tectonic deformation and the consequent sedimentation in the Northern Levant margin. Paleogene and Neogene basins in the southern part of Cyprus record the main tectonic events related to the convergence of Africa and Eurasia. The objective of this contribution is to investigate the timing and the mechanisms of basin deformation, as well as the sedimentary infill of basins located onshore Cyprus and finally resolve how their evolution is linked to the regional geodynamic events. Based on fieldwork studies we reconstructed the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Polis Basin and the Limassol Basin to propose a conceptual model for the evolution of the Northern Levant margin, in accordance with the main geodynamic events. It is expected that analysis of the Polis and Limassol depressions, and later comparison of them will also shed more lights on the impact of the substratum and how it is associated to the main tectonic events.

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Schattner, U., Z. Ben-Avraham, M. Lazar, and C. Hüebscher. "Tectonic isolation of the Levant basin offshore Galilee-Lebanon – effects of the Dead Sea fault plate boundary on the Levant continental margin, eastern Mediterranean." Journal of Structural Geology 28, no. 11 (November 2006): 2049–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.06.003.

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Ali, Malek, and Majd Khaddour. "Potvrđeni nalaz Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Osteichthyes: Apogonidae) u Levantinskom moru." Acta Adriatica 59, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.32582/aa.59.1.14.

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The authors present the first record of Indian Ocean twospot Cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus from the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean).The species is described including morphometric measurements and meristic counts. This new finding confirms the establishment of a viable population of C. novemstriatus occurs at present in the Levant Basin.

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Richter, Tobias, Andrew N. Garrard, Samantha Allock, and Lisa A. Maher. "Interaction before Agriculture: Exchanging Material and Sharing Knowledge in the Final Pleistocene Levant." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21, no. 1 (January 31, 2011): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774311000060.

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This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and are often considered to represent typical hallmarks of emergent farming societies. The hunter-gatherers of the final Pleistocene, in particular those of the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic, have more rarely been the focus of such discussions. In this article we consider evidence for interaction from the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan, to question the uniqueness of the Neolithic evidence for interaction. We argue that interaction between differently-constituted groups can be traced within the Early Epipalaeolithic of the southern Levant, suggesting that it is of far greater antiquity than previously considered.

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Langgut, Dafna, Rachid Cheddadi, Josѐ Sebastián Carrión, Mark Cavanagh, Daniele Colombaroli, Warren John Eastwood, Raphael Greenberg, et al. "The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence." Holocene 29, no. 5 (February 14, 2019): 902–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683619826654.

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Olive ( Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin. Different views have been expressed regarding the geographical origins and timing of olive cultivation. Since genetic studies and macro-botanical remains point in different directions, we turn to another proxy – the palynological evidence. This study uses pollen records to shed new light on the history of olive cultivation and large-scale olive management. We employ a fossil pollen dataset composed of high-resolution pollen records obtained across the Mediterranean Basin covering most of the Holocene. Human activity is indicated when Olea pollen percentages rise fairly suddenly, are not accompanied by an increase of other Mediterranean sclerophyllous trees, and when the rise occurs in combination with consistent archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence. Based on these criteria, our results show that the southern Levant served as the locus of primary olive cultivation as early as ~6500 years BP (yBP), and that a later, early/mid 6th millennium BP cultivation process occurred in the Aegean (Crete) – whether as an independent large-scale management event or as a result of knowledge and/or seedling transfer from the southern Levant. Thus, the early management of olive trees corresponds to the establishment of the Mediterranean village economy and the completion of the ‘secondary products revolution’, rather than urbanization or state formation. From these two areas of origin, the southern Levant and the Aegean olive cultivation spread across the Mediterranean, with the beginning of olive horticulture in the northern Levant dated to ~4800 yBP. In Anatolia, large-scale olive horticulture was palynologically recorded by ~3200 yBP, in mainland Italy at ~3400 yBP, and in the Iberian Peninsula at mid/late 3rd millennium BP.

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Sampietro, Daniele, Ahmed Mansi, and Martina Capponi. "Moho Depth and Crustal Architecture Beneath the Levant Basin from Global Gravity Field Model." Geosciences 8, no. 6 (June 2, 2018): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8060200.

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Eruteya, Ovie Emmanuel, Nicolas Waldmann, Dagan Schalev, Yizhaq Makovsky, and Zvi Ben-Avraham. "Intra- to post-Messinian deep-water gas piping in the Levant Basin, SE Mediterranean." Marine and Petroleum Geology 66 (September 2015): 246–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.03.007.

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Inati, Lama, Jean-Claude Lecomte, Hermann Zeyen, Fadi Henri Nader, Mathilde Adelinet, Muhsin Elie Rahhal, and Alexandre Sursock. "Crustal configuration in the northern Levant basin based on seismic interpretation and numerical modeling." Marine and Petroleum Geology 93 (May 2018): 182–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.03.011.

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Ben-Gai, Yuval, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Binyamin Buchbinder, and Christopher G. St C. Kendall. "Post-Messinian evolution of the Southeastern Levant Basin based on two-dimensional stratigraphic simulation." Marine Geology 221, no. 1-4 (October 2005): 359–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.003.

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Konyukhov, Aleksandr I., Vadim F. Sharafutdinov, and Vasiliy V. Kalabin. "Geological structure, sedimentary environments and oil and gas potential of Oligocene-Miocene and Pliocene-Pleistocene deposits in the Levant basin." Georesursy 21, no. 2 (May 2019): 80–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.18599/grs.2019.2.80-93.

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An extensive sedimentary-rock basin is located within the continental margin of the Levant, where, since 2008, numerous natural gas fields have been discovered, including Tamar, Tannin, Dalit and Leviathan in the offshore zone of Israel, and Aphrodite in the zone of economic interests of Cyprus. Deposits of biogenic methane, located in the deep-water Levantine depression, are confined to terrigenous sandstones of late Oligocene-Early Miocene age. The discovery of another gas field Zohr in 2015 in the area of the underwater uplift of Eratosthenes caused a real boom among petroleum geologists. The fact is that natural gas deposit with reserves of about 30 trillion cubic feet is not in the terrigenous, but carbonate reservoir of the reef genesis, which opens significant prospects for the discovery of new large gas accumulations in the area of this major uplift. All the above-mentioned deposits are located in the same range of sea depths (1600-2000 m) in the propagation zone of the Messinian evaporites, that serves as a regional screen. An analysis of the materials currently published suggests that in the epochs of the sediments formation in which gas deposits are located, the depths of the seabed in the southern regions of the Levant depression were significantly lower compared to modern ones. Currently, there is no doubt that in the Levant region there is the largest gas-bearing basin in the Mediterranean region, with gas reserves of several hundred trillion cubic feet.

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Israel, Alvaro, Alexander Golberg, and Amir Neori. "The seaweed resources of Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea." Botanica Marina 63, no. 1 (February 25, 2020): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bot-2019-0048.

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AbstractIn spite of the natural harsh marine environments and continuous global change stressors affecting the Levant basin, the Israeli marine flora in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is quite diverse, with about 300 recognized species. Such high seaweed biodiversity for a small maritime area is remarkable compared to the ca. 1200 species described for the entire Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Since about the year 1890, the Levant basin has been hosting over 115 seaweeds species that migrated from the Indo-Pacific through the Suez Canal. Indeed, approximately 16% of the marine flora is regarded as invasive or exotic to the Israeli shores, in a process that constantly reshapes seaweed populations and their biodiversity. In spite of significant contributions by Israeli scientists to the general biology and technologies for seaweed cultivation worldwide, Israel has little historical and cultural tradition of commercial seaweed cultivation, or use. At present, only two commercial companies are engaged in land-based seaweed cultivation (Ulva sp. and Gracilaria sp.) with a number of products marketed locally and abroad. Recently, offshore cultivation and biorefinery approaches have been explored, but not yet commercialized.

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Morri, Carla, Stefania Puce, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Ghazi Bitar, Helmut Zibrowius, and Giorgio Bavestrello. "Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Levant Sea (mainly Lebanon), with emphasis on alien species." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89, no. 1 (October 20, 2008): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315408002749.

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Despite the hydroid fauna of the Mediterranean Sea being considered one of the best known in the world, the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea remains nearly unexplored. This paper reports on 38 species collected along the Levant Sea coast (mainly Lebanon), of which three are new records for the Mediterranean and nine for the Levant Sea. Six alien species, i.e. Eudendrium carneum, Sertularia marginata, Sertularia techocarpa, Macrorhynchia philippina, Diphasia digitalis and Dynamena quadridentata, are described in detail and illustrated on the basis of Levant Sea material. The last four species are considered as immigrants from the Red Sea. The synonymy of Sertularia stechowi, described from Japan, with S. techocarpa is established. Taken as a whole, the collection comprised a majority of circum-(sub)tropical species, and a reduced proportion of Atlantic–Mediterranean elements and Mediterranean endemics. The ecology (seasonality, depth distribution and habitat preference) of the indigenous species resulted similar to what is known for the more studied western Mediterranean, with some exceptions. Adding the present species inventory to the scanty published information, the total of hydroid species known from the Levant Sea rises to 70, indicating the need for future investigation in this sector of the Mediterranean Sea.

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STERN, NIR, RONEN ALKALAY, AYAH LAZAR, TIMOR KATZ, YISHAI WEINSTEIN, ILANA BERMAN-FRANK, and BARAK HERUT. "Unexpected massive enmeshments of the Sharpchin barracudina Paralepis coregonoides Risso, 1820 in mesopelagic sediment traps in the Levantine Basin, SE Mediterranean Sea." Mediterranean Marine Science 21, no. 1 (March 28, 2020): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.20747.

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This study reports exceptional penetrations of the Sharpchin Barracudina Paralepis coregonoides into pelagic, open-sea sediment traps in the Levant Basin of the SE Mediterranean Sea. This first substantiated record of the species at the Levant Basin has been observed in two sediment traps at 180 and 280 m depth, 50 km offshore the coast of Israel. Over one year of deployment (November 2016 till November 2017), 483 adult individuals have been repeatedly entrapped inside the automatic sediment traps that were covered with a 25 mm baffler mesh for the first half year and then replaced with a smaller 1 cm mesh for the second half. This undesirable catch of such an elusive and understudied species provided a unique opportunity to revise its distribution, abundance and genetic divergence. The continuous entrapment throughout the year of sexually mature individuals has confirmed that this species is common to the SE Mediterranean. In order to avoid unwanted entrapments that disrupt biogeochemical sediment studies, the installation of small mesh size nets on the conventional sediment trap openings must be considered in the pelagic zone of the SE Mediterranean, and probably elsewhere.

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Kartveit, K. H., K. O. Omosanya, S. E. Johansen, O. E. Eruteya, M. Reshef, and N. D. Waldmann. "Multiphase Structural Evolution and Geodynamic Implications of Messinian Salt-Related Structures, Levant Basin, Offshore Israel." Tectonics 37, no. 5 (May 2018): 1210–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017tc004794.

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Sagy, Y., Z. Gvirtzman, and M. Reshef. "80 m.y. of folding migration: New perspective on the Syrian arc from Levant Basin analysis." Geology 46, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 175–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g39654.1.

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Feng, Ye E., Anastasya Yankelzon, Josh Steinberg, and Moshe Reshef. "Lithology and characteristics of the Messinian evaporite sequence of the deep Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean." Marine Geology 376 (June 2016): 118–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.04.004.

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Lazar, Michael, Guy Lang, and Uri Schattner. "Coincidence or not? Interconnected gas/fluid migration and ocean–atmosphere oscillations in the Levant Basin." Geo-Marine Letters 36, no. 4 (March 29, 2016): 293–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00367-016-0447-5.

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Baudon, Catherine, and Joe Cartwright. "Early stage evolution of growth faults: 3D seismic insights from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean." Journal of Structural Geology 30, no. 7 (July 2008): 888–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2008.02.019.

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Gvirtzman, Zohar, Moshe Reshef, Orna Buch-Leviatan, and Zvi Ben-Avraham. "Intense salt deformation in the Levant Basin in the middle of the Messinian Salinity Crisis." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 379 (October 2013): 108–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.018.

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Anagnostoudi, Th, B. C. Vendeville, V. Gaullier, O. Ferrer, U. Schattner, and M. Lazar. "Salt-related gravity-driven processes in the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean: Insights from physical modeling." Journal of Structural Geology 183 (June 2024): 105134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105134.

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Saad, Adib, Nour Ali Basha, Nader Hamwi, Abdullah Tufahha, and Christian Capape. "First substantiated record of slender goby Gobius geniporus (Osteichthyes: Gobiidae) from the Syrian coast (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)." Acta Adriatica 63, no. 1 (August 8, 2022): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32582/aa.63.1.6.

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A specimen of slender goby Gobius geniporus Valenciennes, 1837 was caught on 21 February 2021, from the Syrian coast at a depth of 13 m. This specimen measured 87 mm in total length and weighed 6.89 g. The present finding represents the first record of G. geniporus from the Syrian coast and confirms the species occurrence in the Levant Basin, eastern region from the Mediterranean Sea.

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Saad, Adib, Nour Ali Basha, Nader Hamwi, Abdullah Tufahha, and Christian Capape. "First substantiated record of slender goby Gobius geniporus (Osteichthyes: Gobiidae) from the Syrian coast (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)." Acta Adriatica 63, no. 1 (August 8, 2022): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32582/aa.63.1.6.

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A specimen of slender goby Gobius geniporus Valenciennes, 1837 was caught on 21 February 2021, from the Syrian coast at a depth of 13 m. This specimen measured 87 mm in total length and weighed 6.89 g. The present finding represents the first record of G. geniporus from the Syrian coast and confirms the species occurrence in the Levant Basin, eastern region from the Mediterranean Sea.

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Armiach Steinpress, Igor, Mira Cohen, Julien Pétillon, Ariel D. Chipman, and Efrat Gavish-Regev. "Lycosa Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Israel, with a note on Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904." European Journal of Taxonomy 832 (July 26, 2022): 1–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.832.1877.

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Lycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) is a wolf spider genus typical of subtropical latitudes in the western Palearctic. Despite being erected over 200 years ago, the taxonomy of Lycosa is still unclear. Many species formerly ascribed to it are currently being moved to other genera, while new species are still being described. The species of Lycosa of the western Mediterranean basin are relatively well known, yet the Levantine region, the easternmost part of the Mediterranean basin, has not received much attention since the early 20th century. Here, we study Lycosa from the southern Levant using morphological, molecular and behavioral characteristics, to delimit the species found in this region. We describe two new species: L. hyraculus sp. nov. and L. gesserit sp. nov. We re-describe the widespread and polymorphic species, Lycosa piochardi Simon, 1876. Lycosa piochardi infraclara Strand, 1913 is synonymized with Lycosa piochardi. By adding novel data to the molecular phylogeny of Lycosa created by Planas et al. (2013) and re-analyzing it, we explore the relationship of the Levantine species to other Mediterranean species of Lycosa. We discuss habitat preferences of the two species of Lycosa. Additionally, we report the burrowing species Geolycosa vultuosa (C.L. Koch, 1838) as a new record to Israel, thus extending the distribution of this species and genus into the Levant.

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Hassan, Soha, Mohamed Sultan, Mohamed Sobh, Mohamed S. Elhebiry, Khaled Zahran, Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Elsayed Issawy, and Samir Kamh. "Crustal Structure of the Nile Delta: Interpretation of Seismic-Constrained Satellite-Based Gravity Data." Remote Sensing 13, no. 10 (May 15, 2021): 1934. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13101934.

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Interpretations of the tectonic setting of the Nile Delta of Egypt and its offshore extension are challenged by the thick sedimentary cover that conceals the underlying structures and by the paucity of deep seismic data and boreholes. A crustal thickness model, constrained by available seismic and geological data, was constructed for the Nile Delta by inversion of satellite gravity data (GOCO06s), and a two-dimensional (2D) forward density model was generated along the Delta’s entire length. Modelling results reveal the following: (1) the Nile Delta is formed of two distinctive crustal units: the Southern Delta Block (SDB) and the Northern Delta Basin (NDB) separated by a hinge zone, a feature widely reported from passive margin settings; (2) the SDB is characterized by an east–west-trending low-gravity (~−40 mGal) anomaly indicative of continental crust characteristics (depth to Moho (DTM): 36–38 km); (3) the NDB and its offshore extension are characterized by high gravity anomalies (hinge zone: ~10 mGal; Delta shore line: >40 mGal; south Herodotus Basin: ~140 mGal) that are here attributed to crustal thinning and stretching and decrease in DTM, which is ~35 km at the hinge zone, 30–32 km at the shoreline, and 22–20 km south of the Herodotus Basin; and (4) an apparent continuation of the east-northeast–west-southwest transitional crust of the Nile Delta towards the north-northeast–south-southwest-trending Levant margin in the east. These observations together with the reported extensional tectonics along the hinge zone, NDB and its offshore, the low to moderate seismic activity, and the absence of volcanic eruptions in the Nile Delta are all consistent with the NDB being a non-volcanic passive margin transition zone between the North African continental crust (SDB) and the Mediterranean oceanic crust (Herodotus Basin), with the NDB representing a westward extension of the Levant margin extensional transition zone.

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Benlasri, Mokhtar, Laurent Vuataz, Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Arne J. Beermann, Heribert Leßner, Majida El Alami El Moutaouakil, Mohamed Ghamizi, and Elisabeth Berger. "First report of Cloeon vanharteni Gattolliat & Sartori, 2008 (Baetidae, Ephemeroptera) in the Maghreb." Alpine Entomology 7 (September 26, 2023): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/alpento.7.109562.

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Cloeon vanharteni Gattolliat & Sartori, 2008 was newly discovered in the framework of our study of Ephemeroptera in the Draa basin, located in the southern region of the High Atlas in Morocco. This discovery is rather unexpected as the species was never reported outside the Arabian Peninsula and Levant; it is thus the first record for the Maghreb. The identification was based on morphological evidence and confirmed by the mitochondrial COI barcode.

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