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The geological history of Israel was determined by the position of the area between the Precambrian Arabo—Nubian crystalline massif in the south and the pre-Mediterranean Sea in the north and west.
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Serruya, C., Michelson, H., Freund, R., Horowitz, A. (1978). Geology. In: Serruya, C. (eds) Lake Kinneret. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9954-1_3
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