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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Fig. 6 | Geoscience Letters

Fig. 6

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

Fig. 6

Strain rate map that correspond to the change of the SRS and Gulf of Aden kinematic conditions (black arrows). The strain distribution here reflects the boundary conditions corresponding to the time interval between initiation of dike intrusion along the Red Sea (24 Ma) until the development of the Dead Sea Transform (20 Ma). The dilatational strain rate localizes along the NRS. For simplicity, we are use a homogenous elastic domain in which the dilatational strain tends to be uniformly distributed. The black circle highlights the location of the hypothesized central RS triple junction. The black arrows represent the northern two arms, the MMTZ transform and NRS rift

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