Re: Geology of Israel/Levant

Karen G. Jensen (kjensen@calweb.com)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:30:51 -0600

> Anyone familiar with any books or summary papers detailing the geology
>of this
>area of the world? I looked around a little and haven't found much.
>

One by David Neev, Geology 3:684 (1975) gives a great map of major tectonic
elements in Israel, Sinai, and the Levantine basin, with ref. to a 1973
paper.

More recently, Amos Nur and others have studied earthquakes, including
ancient ones, in that area, and have produced a video on the subject,
called "The Walls came Tumbling Down", put out by Stanford University (ESI
Productions, P.O.Box 2365 Stanford, CA 94309).

Karen