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The Oligo-Miocene deepwater system of the Levant Basin

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- 66 -SlopePartly Uplifted ?Hordos sandsShelfContinentalMiddle <strong>Miocene</strong> shorelineHazeva sandsExposed NubiansandstoneFigure 38: <strong>The</strong> paleogeography <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Levant</strong> margin during <strong>the</strong> Middle to upper<strong>Miocene</strong>. Continental drainage <strong>system</strong>s are marked by black arrows, submarinecanyons are marked by red dashed lines, and occurrences <strong>of</strong> shelf and deep-water sandsin wells are marked by yellow polygones. Hazeva and Hordos sands where <strong>the</strong> source<strong>of</strong> siliciclastics. <strong>The</strong> transport fron <strong>the</strong> NE may have been restricted by uplifting,associated with Syrian Arc deformation.

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