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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Fig. 5 | Geoscience Letters

Fig. 5

From: The Makkah–Madinah Transform Zone: a relic rift-to-rift continental transform formed during early Arabia–Nubia plate separation

Fig. 5

Strain rate map that correspond to the increase of velocity in the eastern Mediterranean with keeping the rest of the boundary conditions as described in Fig. 3. This process demonstrates that during the period between development of the Nile River zone (30–28 Ma) until the dike intrusions event (25 Ma) hyperextension was taking place along the NRS, and dilatational strain rate diffuses from the Egyptian western dessert to the Sirhan rift. Although the deformation becomes more diffuse in comparison with Fig. 4, the strain zone linking the SRS and the Sirhan rifts still bounds the diffuse extension area to the south. For simplicity, we use a homogenous elastic domains in which the dilatational strain tends to be uniformly distributed

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