Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rift Basins Red Sea:- Gulf of Aden

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Organization and scientific contributions in sedimentation and tectonics of rift basins: Red Sea-Gulf of Aden....Pages 3-8
Stratigraphic and sedimentological models of rift basins....Pages 9-25
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Geophysical studies on early tectonic controls on Red Sea rifting, opening and segmentation....Pages 29-49
Pre-, syn- and post-rift volcanism on the south-western margin of the Arabian plate....Pages 50-55
Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the eastern Gulf of Aden continental margins: new structural and stratigraphic data from Somalia and Yemen....Pages 56-76
Structure, sedimentation, and basin dynamics during rifting of the Gulf of Suez and north-western Red Sea....Pages 77-96
Rift development in the Gulf of Suez and the north-western Red Sea: structural aspects and related sedimentary processes....Pages 97-116
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Pre-rift doming, peneplanation or subsidence in the southern Red Sea? Evidence from the Medj-zir Formation (Tawilah Group) of western Yemen....Pages 119-134
Sedimentary evolution of early rift troughs of the central Red Sea margin, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....Pages 135-145
The sedimentary record of the initial stages of Oligo-Miocene rifting in the Gulf of Suez and the northern Red Sea....Pages 146-161
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Rift-related sedimentation and stratigraphy, southern Yemen (Gulf of Aden)....Pages 165-189
Miocene isolated platform and shallow-shelf carbonates in the Red Sea coastal plain, north-east Sudan....Pages 190-210
Stratigraphy of the Egyptian syn-rift deposits: correlations between axial and peripheral sequences of the north-western Red Sea and Gulf of Suez and their relations with tectonics and eustacy....Pages 211-222
Extensional tectonics and sedimentation, eastern Gulf of Suez, Egypt....Pages 223-238
Carbonate and siliciclastic sedimentation in an active tectonic setting: Miocene of the north-western Red Sea rift, Egypt....Pages 239-270
The tectono-sedimentary evolution of a rift margin carbonate platform: Abu Shaar, Gulf of Suez, Egypt....Pages 271-295
Miocene coral reefs and reef corals of the south-western Gulf of Suez and north-western Red Sea: distribution, diversity and regional environmental controls....Pages 296-319
Miocene periplatform slope sedimentation in the north-western Red Sea rift, Egypt....Pages 320-346
The tectonic significance of seismic sedimentary deformations within the syn- and post-rift deposits of the north-western (Egyptian) Red Sea coast and Gulf of Suez....Pages 347-366
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Syn-rift diagenesis of Middle Miocene carbonate platforms on the north-western Red Sea coast, Egypt....Pages 369-389
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The dolomitization and post-dolomite diagenesis of Miocene platform carbonates: Abu Shaar, Gulf of Suez, Egypt....Pages 390-405
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A review of the evaporites of the Red Sea-Gulf of Suez rift....Pages 409-426
Post-Miocene sedimentation and rift dynamics in the southern Gulf of Suez and northern Red Sea....Pages 427-447
Salt domes and their control on basin margin sedimentation: a case study from the Tihama Plain, Yemen....Pages 448-454
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Axial sedimentation of the Red Sea Transitional Region (22°–25° N): pelagic, gravity flow and sapropel deposition during the late Quaternary....Pages 467-478
Sedimentation, organic geochemistry and diagenesis of cores from the axial zone of the southern Red Sea: relationships to rift dynamics and climate....Pages 479-504
Metalliferous sedimentation in the Atlantis II Deep: a geochemical insight....Pages 505-520
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Present-day sedimentation on the carbonate platform of the Dahlak Islands, Eritrea....Pages 523-536
Quaternary marine and continental sedimentation in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Suez (Egyptian coast): influences of rift tectonics, climatic changes and sea-level fluctuations....Pages 537-573
Post-Miocene reef faunas of the Red Sea: glacio-eustatic controls....Pages 574-582
Modern Red Sea coral reefs: a review of their morphologies and zonation....Pages 583-594
Tectonic geomorphology and rates of crustal processes along the Red Sea margin, north-west Yemen....Pages 595-612
Back Matter....Pages 613-663