DEAD SEA FAULT AND Sea of Galilee WADI ARABA / ARAVA Aq lf of GRAVITY ANOMALY MAP OF THE DEAD SEA FAULT ANDSea of Galilee WADI ARABA / ARAVA Aq lf of GRAVITY ANOMALY MAP OF THE DEAD SEA FAULT ANDIsrael, O FValley, Jordan
The Dead Sea Depression is an extensive area of land that is below sea level. It contains the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, a portion of the Jordan River, large areas of cultivated land and many communities. The shoreline of the Dead Sea is the lowest dry land on Earth. It is approx...
The Mount of Beatitudes, located on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, is the traditional site of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus is said to have delivered his famous Sermon. Visit the Yigal Alon Center, a museum dedicated to the life and work of Yigal Alon, an Israeli po...
The Sea of Galilee is a unique large freshwater or slightly oligohaline natural lake in the Levant. Therefore, it represents an important aquatic habitat i
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Neotectonics of the Sea of Galilee (northeast Israel): implication for geodynamics and seismicity along the Dead Sea Fault system Luca Gasperini1*, Michael Lazar2, Adriano Mazzini3, Matteo Lupi4, Antoine Haddad4, Christian Hensen5...
Beyond the communion rail are loaves and fishes set in different marble patterns bordered by scallop shells, a copy of the Byzantine mosaic in the Church of the Feeding of the Five Thousand in Galilee. The structure set into shifting cliffs is subject to subsidence. Procedures have been complete...
The present study reports a series of interdisciplinary archaeometrical analyses of objects found in the Christmas Cave, which was discovered by John Allegro and his team in 1960 on the West Bank of the Dead Sea and assumed to be inhabited only in the Ch
extending from the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea in the south, to Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee), in the north. The JRV, formed in the Miocene Epoch (23.8–5.3 million years ago), is mainly covered by playa deposits (salt, sand, and mud) and sand dunes. The highlands of the JR...
Geographical context. (a) Simplified tectonic map of the eastern Mediterranean, showing the plate boundaries and the main faults14. DSTF, Dead Sea Transform; CFS, Carmel Fault System; YF, Yammouneh Fault. (b) Geological map of the Sea of Galilee15. The black squares indicate the main built...
within a tectonic rift (known as the 'Jordan Rift Valley' (JRV) or 'Jordan Valley'), forming a topographic depression (known as 'Graben') with a width of 15–25 km, extending from the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea in the south, to Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee), in the north...