Abstract
About 100 km southeast of Damascus and 100 km northeast of Aman, the volcanic mountain massif of Jebel el Arab rises above the plateaus of southern Syria and northern Jordan up to an elevation of 1,800 m asl. Jebel el Arab or Jebel Druze constitutes the core of a volcanic province, which extends from southwestern Syria across Jordan into the Al Harra basalt area of Saudi Arabia. The basalts of that North Arabian Volcanic Province originate from the regional volcanic activity which accompanied the tectonic events of the development of the Red Sea rift graben during the Tertiary to Quaternary. Further south on the Arabian Shield, volcanic rocks of comparable age extend over considerable areas in a general southeast–northwest direction along the eastern shoulder of the Red Sea graben. The basalt outcrops of the Jebel el Arab volcanic province continue the southeast–northwest trend of the Red Sea volcanics after a shift of about 200 km toward northeast.
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Wagner, W. (2011). North Arabian Volcanic Province: Jebel el Arab–Golan–Al Harra. In: Groundwater in the Arab Middle East. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19351-4_4
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