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Faulting patterns in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge potentially influence groundwater flow paths

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Inbar,  Nimrod
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Rosenthal,  Eliahu
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Magri,  Fabien
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Alraggad,  Marwan
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Möller,  Peter
3.4 Fluid Systems Modelling, 3.0 Geochemistry, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Flexer,  Akiva
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Guttman,  Joseph
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Siebert,  Christian
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Inbar, N., Rosenthal, E., Magri, F., Alraggad, M., Möller, P., Flexer, A., Guttman, J., Siebert, C. (2019): Faulting patterns in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge potentially influence groundwater flow paths. - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 763-771.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-763-2019


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_3318891
Abstract
Recent studies investigating groundwater parameters e.g. heads, chemical composition and heat transfer, argued that groundwater flow paths in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge area are controlled by geological features such as faults or dikes (Goretzki et al., 2016; Magri et al., 2016; Roded et al., 2013; Siebert et al., 2014). However, the nature of such features as well as their exact locations were previously unknown. In the present manuscript, we propose a new fault pattern in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge area constructed by compiling and revising geological and geophysical data from the study area including borehole information, geological maps cross-sections and seismic data from southern Golan Heights and northern Ajloun Mountain. The presented pattern is composed of strike-slip and thrust faults, which are associated with the Dead Sea Transform system and with the Kinnarot pull-apart basin. Compressional and tensional structures developed in different places forming a series of fault-blocks probably causing a non-uniform spatial hydraulic connection between them. This study provides a coarse fault block model and improved structural constraints that serve as fundamental input for future hydrogeological modelling.