Tectonics of the Levant fault system

Yann Klinger (1)

1 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

In June 2013, for the second time, an international workshop dedicated to the tectonics of the Levant fault system and the Arabic plate was held in Paris. During two days, this meeting gathered researchers from 19 institutions and 12 countries, with 24 presentations. During this meeting, a large variety of topics were addressed, ranging from new insights into the geodynamics of the Red Sea to earthquake history along the Dead Sea fault. A key point of this meeting was actually to gather contributions focused on the same object, here the Levant fault system, but with different perspectives, to foster new collaborations and research projects. In line with this idea, several presentations were actually dealing with issues related to the palaeoclimate of this specific region, engineering issues about earthquake destructions, or the impact of the Dead Sea active tectonics on the evolution of hominins, aside from general tectonics.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Yann Klinger. Tectonics of the Levant fault system. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 2015, 347, pp.159-160. ⟨10.1016/j.crte.2015.06.008⟩. ⟨insu-03579749⟩