Regional Structural Geology of Lebanon

The opening of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and the collision of the Arabian Plate with the jigsaw southern margin of the Anatolian plate have sheared the Sinai-Levant microplate off the NW part of the Arabian Plate, and created the left-lateral Dead Sea (Levant) transform fault. The structural setting of the northern Levant region, particularly Lebanon and the Palmyrides, has been complicated by detachments along incompetent evaporitic horizons, roughly separating