Contribution to the petrography, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of the basalt flows of the Umm-Qais plateau, north Jordan

H. El Akhal

Makale detayları

Contribution to the petrography, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of the basalt flows of the Umm-Qais plateau, north Jordan

Yazarlar:

H. El Akhal

Yayıncı:

TMMOB Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası

Ana Başlıklar:

Doğa bilimleri

Dergi:

Geological Bulletin of Turkey 2004 Vol.47 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

1/2004

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000710808

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

eISSN:

2564-6745

pISSN:

1016-9164

Özet:

 


The Umm-Qais plateau is situated in north Jordan, south of the Yarmouk River. It consists of eleven basalt flows (about 190 m. thickness). The basalt flows belong to the Arabian Harrat volcanism. Petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical analysis of 11 rock samples indicated that the rocks are products of a continental intra-plate magmatism, mostly as coarse-grained silica-undersaturated olivine-rich alkali basalt (AOB). Nepheline and Fo-olivine are among the normative minerals. The age of the basalt flows can be correlated with the basalt of the northern extension of the Umm-Qais plateau north the Yarmouk River (Zamlat Bkhila plateau basalt) in the Golan Heights which was found to be 3.7±0.36-3.11±0.16 Ma. Flow eruptions are contemporaneous with the second spreading stage of the Red Sea during the Cainozoic over the past 5 Ma. Analysis of fractures showed mainly four dominant directions, namely ENE/WSW, NW/SE, NNE/SSW and NE/SW. They coincide with the trends of the Red Sea, Dead Sea transform fault, and some other distinct tectonic features.

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The Umm-Qais plateau is situated in north Jordan, south of the Yarmouk River. It consists of eleven basalt flows (about 190 m. thickness). The basalt flows belong to the Arabian Harrat volcanism. Petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical analysis of 11 rock samples indicated that the rocks are products of a continental intra-plate magmatism, mostly as coarse-grained silica-undersaturated olivine-rich alkali basalt (AOB). Nepheline and Fo-olivine are among the normative minerals.

The age of the basalt flows can be correlated with the basalt of the northern extension of the Umm-Qais plateau north the Yarmouk River (Zamlat Bkhila plateau basalt) in the Golan Heights which was found to be 3.7±0.36-3.11±0.16 Ma. Flow eruptions are contemporaneous with the second spreading stage of the Red Sea during the Cainozoic over the past 5 Ma.

Analysis of fractures showed mainly four dominant directions, namely ENE/WSW, NW/SE, NNE/SSW and NE/SW. They coincide with the trends of the Red Sea, Dead Sea transform fault, and some other distinct tectonic features.

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Makale detayları

Contribution to the petrography, geochemistry, and tectonic setting of the basalt flows of the Umm-Qais plateau, north Jordan

Yazarlar: H. El Akhal

Yayıncı: TMMOB Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası

Ana Başlıklar: Doğa bilimleri

Dergi: Geological Bulletin of Turkey 2004 Vol.47 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 1/2004

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000710808

Sıklık: Üç Yıllık

eISSN: 2564-6745

pISSN: 1016-9164

Sayı

Yazarlar:

H. El Akhal

Yayıncı:

TMMOB Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası

Ana Başlıklar:

Doğa bilimleri

Dergi:

Geological Bulletin of Turkey 2004 Vol.47 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

1/2004

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000710808

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

eISSN:

2564-6745

pISSN:

1016-9164