Origin of Lower Pliocene Remobilized Deepwater Mounded Deposits, Yafo Formation, Levant Basin, Southeastern Mediterranean: A Head-Scratching, Group Exercise to Explain Mounded Deposits

摘要

The Levant basin is located in the southeastern portion of Mediterranean Sea (Fig. 1). The basin is bordered by the African plate to the south, the Sinai plate to the south and east, and the Eurasian plate to the north (Fig. 1). Although there has been significant petroleum exploration to the west in the Nile Delta region (Fig. 1), there has been substantially less success in the Levant basin between the late 1960 to late 1990's (Gardosh et al., 2008).