The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red
Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental
collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory
for investigation of the surficial, crustal and mantle processes
occurring along transtensional and transpressional transform fault
domains on a lithospheric scale and related to continental breakup.
There have been many detailed and disciplinary studies of the Dead Sea
transform fault zone during the last 20 years and this book brings them
together.
This book is an updated comprehensive coverage of the knowledge, based
on recent studies of the tectonics, structure, geophysics, volcanism,
active tectonics, sedimentology and paleo and modern climate of the Dead
Sea transform fault zone. It puts together all this new information and
knowledge in a coherent fashion.