[1] Large-scale crustal deformation in the Levant is mainly related to the DST and the CFS. The former is an active left lateral transform, bounding the Arabian plate and the Sinai sub-plate, and the latter branches out of the former and separates the Sinai sub-plate into two tectonic domains. In this study we obtain the velocities of 33 permanent GPS stations and 145 survey stations that were ...

Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) have been implicated as the source of type C toxin in avian botulism outbreaks in pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) at the Salton Sea in southern California (USA). We collected sick, dead, and healthy fish from various sites throughout the Sea during the summers of 1999 through 2001 and tested them for the presence of Clo...

. From coastal ecosystems of the Dead Sea (vertical steep gorge around of the Dead Sea, clay-salt plain and a black highly mineralized muds) Bacillus licheniformis, B.subtilis subsp. subtilis, Bacillus sp., Staphylococcus hominis strains have been isolated. All strains grew at 0-10 % of NaCl in medium, in a range of 20-50°С. Resistance to UV has been revealed in all the investigated bacteria. L...

[1] We use measurements of ocean surface dissolved Al, a global Biogeochemical Elemental Cycling (BEC) ocean model, and the global Dust Entrainment and Deposition (DEAD) model to constrain dust deposition to the oceans. Our Al database contains all available measurements with best coverage in the Atlantic. Vertical profiles and seasonal data exist in limited regions. Observations show that surf...

Large albitite bodies associated with explosive brecciation, fenite aureoles, intrusive carbonate rocks, olivine dolerites, and copper mineralization are described from the Dead Sea rift region in the south-eastern Sinai Peninsula. The main carbonate phases comprise breunnerite and dolomite with actinolite the main phase in the fenites. Field and isotopic evidence indicates that the intrusive c...

Recent climate change has triggered profound reorganization in northeast Atlantic ecosystems, with substantial impact on the distribution of marine assemblages from plankton to fishes. However, assessing the repercussions on apex marine predators remains a challenging issue, especially for pelagic species. In this study, we use Bayesian coalescent modelling of microsatellite variation to track ...

The dominant structural feature of Jordan is the north-south trending Dead Sea Rift. It is an active part of the African-Syrian Rift, which extends for about 6000 km, from east Africa through the Red Sea, Wadi Araba, Dead Sea, Jordan Valley to south Turkey. The groundwater aquifers of Jordan are divided into three main complexes: A deep sandstone aquifer complex, an Upper Cretaceous aquifer com...

In this paper, an identification scheme for sandwich systems with a dead zone is proposed. In this scheme, a so-called combinational input is proposed to transform the sandwich model with a dead zone into a model with separated parameters. Then, the recursive general identification algorithm can be applied to the parameter-estimation, since the transformed model has a form that is linearized in...