The Oligo-Miocene deepwater system of the Levant Basin

0m.500100010951265TD 1362m Judea Gr.National133511901041TD 1364mN8-N910871500TD 1184m0 4 8kmFigure 27: A N-S stratigraphic section across the Natanya Canyon, the Caesarea Canyon and the Hadera syncline . Towards the south-west, theHadera syncline became an incised canyon at the base Oligocene time (Fig. 26). The earliest incision of the Natanya Canyon is of early MiddleMiocene, followed by a repeated incision in Tortonian times. The Tortonian canyon is filled by the National Park Volcanics, Pattish Reef rubleand the Mavqiim evaporites. Finally, in post-Messinian time, both the Natanya and the Ceasaria canyons were incised again.The Or Aqiva fault (Gvirtzman, 1970) at the north end of the section was referred by Gelberman (1990) as the Binyamina fault. Steinberg et al.(2008) extended this fault into the offshore. Datum: MSL.AvedatMt. ScopusNatanya 1YafoNatanya 2AfiqKurkarYafoSenonian-PaleoceneJudea Gr.Early-Midlle EoceneCenomanian-TuronianMt. ScopusPark VolcanicsLanghianMavqiimPattish Reef8-10MyLate Eocene850938MessinianJudea Gr.Hadera 1638Caesarea3 1 2TD TD4600m 2587mT.D. 2575mN7-9N10-13ZiqimBet GuvrinN14478N4P19-23763P18583788Oligocene-L.Miocene436494935TortonianM. Miocene(Pleistocene)KurkarYafoLegend:ShaleMarlstoneSandstoneConglomerateAv.YafoLimestoneVolcanicsDolomiteAnhydriteOr Aqiva FaultTaninim AmoqT.D. 650mStratigraphic contactHiatal or unconformity contact- 49 -