Abstract
Multichannel seismic reflection profiles recorded in the northern Red Sea show structures that we interpret to be a result of the intrusion of uppermost Miocene salt. We believe that the evaporites are underlaid by attenuated continental crust and the flow of salt is due to renewed faulting of basement in the Pliocene when sea floor spreading began between latitudes 21°N and 15°30°N.
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Uchupi, E., Ross, D.A. The tectonic style of the northern Red Sea. Geo-Marine Letters 5, 203–209 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02233804
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