Or M. Bialik on Nostr: If you ever did #geology in the #Levent region, the Syrian Arc is a core concept you ...

If you ever did #geology in the #Levent region, the Syrian Arc is a core concept you were presented as THE major #tectonic element of the region for the last ~80 Myr (that and the much younger Dead Sea Transform). But with new data, that model is being challenged.
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/8355/