Recent Activity of the Jordan Valley Fault Zone in Karamah area,Jordan

Masami Togo; Hitoshi Hasegawa; Tomoya Goto; Tatsuya Ishiyama; Hisao Ushiki; Tawfiq Al-Yazeen; Mahmoud Al-Qaryouti; Khalid Momani

doi:10.14866/ajg.2014s.0_100132

Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2014

Session ID : 640

DOI https://doi.org/10.14866/ajg.2014s.0_100132

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Recent Activity of the Jordan Valley Fault Zone in Karamah area,Jordan

*Masami Togo, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Tomoya Goto, Tatsuya Ishiyama, Hisao Ushiki, Tawfiq Al-Yazeen, Mahmoud Al-Qaryouti, Khalid Momani

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Keywords: Jordan, Dead Sea Transform Fault, Jordan Valley Fault Zone, Paleoseismological study

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We tried a trenching survey to excavate geological evidences on recent faulting in the southern segment of Jordan Valley Fault zone(JVF) along the Dead Sea Transform fault.The geological structure which were exposed on these trench walls,have evidenced that JVF is clearly active also in the Holocene and had caused at least three faulting events in the latest 5000 years.This result is consistent with the findings obtained at the our 2010 survey in the 40kmnorth trenches.

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