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Selected Syria Project Publications

Select your geographic area of interest:

• Palmyride Fold and Thrust Belt

• Euphrates Fault System

• Northeast Syria

• General / Regional

Palmyride Fold and Thrust Belt:

• Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., Gebran, A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T. A., Northern Arabian platform transect across the Palmyride mountain belt, Syrian Arab Republic, Global Geoscience Transect 1, The Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere and the American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., 1991.

• Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., Gebran, A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T. A., Crustal structure of central Syria: The intracontinental Palmyride Mountain belt, Tectonophysics, 207, 345-358, 1992.

• Barazangi, M., Seber, D., Al-Saad, D., and Sawaf, T., Structure of the intracontinental Palmyride mountain belt in Syria and its relationship to nearby Arabian plate boundaries, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Eastern Mediterranean Geology, Bull. Earth Sci., 20, Cukurova Univ., Adana, Turkey, 111-118, 1992.

• Best, J. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Gebran, A., Bouguer gravity trends and crustal structure of the Palmyride mountain belt and surrounding northern Arabian platform in Syria, Geology, 18, 1235-1239, 1990.

• Brew, G., Best, J., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T. Tectonic evolution of the northeast Palmyride mountain belt, Syria: the Bishri block, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 677-685, 2003.

• Chaimov, T. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Gebran, A., Shortening in the Palmyride fold belt, Syria, and implications for movement along the Dead Sea fault system, Tectonics, 9, 1369-1386, 1990.

• Chaimov, T A.., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T. and Gebran, A., Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation inferred from seismic stratigraphy in the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust belt, Syria, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 704-715, 1992.

• Chaimov, T. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Khaddour, M., Seismic fabric and 3-D upper crustal structure of the southwestern intracontinental Palmyride fold belt, Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 77, 2032-2047, 1993.

• McBride, J. H., Barazangi, M., Best, J., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., Al-Otri, M., and Gebran, A., Seismic reflection structure of intracratonic Palmyride fold-thrust belt and surrounding Arabian platform, Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 74, 238-259, 1990.

• Sawaf, T., Brew, G.E., Litak, R.K., Barazangi, M., Geologic evolution of the intraplate Palmyride basin and Euphrates fault system, Syria, PeriTethys Memoir # 6, eds. Ziegler, P., Cavazza, W., Robertson, A. H. F., and Crasquin-Soleau, S., 441-467, 2001.

• Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Chaimov, T. A., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., and Khaddour, M., Upper crustal velocity structure and basement morphology beneath the intracontinental Palmyride fold-thrust belt and north Arabian platform in Syria, Geophys. J. Int., 113, 752-766, 1993.

Euphrates Fault System / Eastern Syria:

• Alsdorf, D., Barazangi, M., Litak, R., Seber, D., Sawaf, T., and Al-Saad, D., The intraplate Euphrates fault system- Palmyrides mountain belt junction and relationship to Arabian plate boundary tectonics, Annali di Geofisica,38, 385-397, 1995.

• Brew, G. E., Litak, R. K., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Al-Imam, A., Basement depth and velocity structure in the northern Arabian platform, Eastern Syria, Geophys. J. Int., 128, 617-631, 1997.

• Litak, R. K., Barazangi, M., Beauchamp, W., Seber, D., Brew, G., Sawaf, T., and Al-Youssef, W., Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the intraplate Euphrates fault system, Syria: Implications for regional tectonics, J. Geol. Soc., London, 154, 653-666, 1997.

• Litak, R. K., Barazangi, Brew, G. E., M., Sawaf, T., Al-Imam, A., and Al-Youssef, W., Structure and evolution of the petroliferous Euphrates graben system, southern Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 82, 1173-1190, 1998.

• Sawaf, T., Al-Saad, D., Gebran, A., Barazangi, M., Best, J. A., and Chaimov, T., Stratigraphy and structure of eastern Syria across the Euphrates depression, Tectonophysics, 220, 267-281, 1993.
  

Northeastern Syria:

• Brew, G., Litak, R., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Zaza, T., Tectonic evolution of northeast Syria: Implications for regional tectonics and hydrocarbons, GeoArabia, 4, 289-318, 1999.
  

General / Regional:

• Alchalbi, A., et al. Crustal deformation in northwestern Arabia from GPS measurements in Syria: Slow slip rate along the northern Dead Sea Fault. Geophys. J. Int., 180, 125-135, 2010.

• Barazangi, M., Seber, D., Chaimov, T., Best, J., Litak, R., Al-Saad, D., and Sawaf, T., Tectonic evolution of the northern Arabian plate in western Syria, in E. Boschi, E. Mantovani, and A. Morelli, eds., Recent Evolution and Seismicity of the Mediterranean Region, Kluwer Academic Publishers, NATO ASI Series, The Netherlands, 117-140, 1993.

• Best, J. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T. and Gebran, A., Continental margin evolution of the northern Arabian platform in Syria, Am. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Bull., 77, 173-193, 1993.

• Brew, G. E., Litak, R. K., Seber, D., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Zaza, T., Summary of the geological evolution of Syria through geophysical interpretation implications for hydrocarbon exploration, The Leading Edge, 16, 1473-1482, 1997.

• Brew, G., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., and Al-Maleh, K., Tectonic Map and Geologic Evolution of Syria: The role of GIS, The Leading Edge, 19, 176-182, 2000.

• Brew, G., Barazangi, M., Al-Maleh, K., and Sawaf, T., Tectonic and Geologic evolution of Syria, GeoArabia, 6, 3, 2001.

• Brew, G., Tectonic evolution of Syria Interpreted from Integrated Geophysical and Geological Analysis, Ph. D. Dissertation, Cornell University, January 2001.

For questions or comments, please contact Muawia Barazangi: mb44@cornell.edu

Last updated: May 2010