Schematic View of Dead Sea Rift
Schematic view of principal faults that form the Dead Sea rift. Black arrows illustrate northward movement of the Arabian platelet relative to the Palestinian platelet. The open arrow southeast of Haifa indicates the tectonic corridor along which water from the Mediterranean Sea infiltrated into the rift from about 9 million to 5 million years ago. Courtesy of Jelle de Boer/Princeton University Press)