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ctonics of the Levant fault system
In June 2013, for the second time, an international
rkshop dedicated to the tectonics of the Levant fault
tem and the Arabic plate was held in Paris. During two
s, this meeting gathered researchers from 19 institu-
s and 12 countries, with 24 presentations. During this
eting, a large variety of topics were addressed, ranging
 new insights into the geodynamics of the Red Sea to
thquake history along the Dead Sea fault. A key point of
 meeting was actually to gather contributions focused
the same object, here the Levant fault system, but with
erent perspectives, to foster new collaborations and
earch projects. In line with this idea, several presenta-
s were actually dealing with issues related to the
aeoclimate of this specific region, engineering issues
ut earthquake destructions, or the impact of the Dead
 active tectonics on the evolution of hominins, aside
 general tectonics.
At the end of this meeting, the journal Comptes rendus
science offered to publish some of the contributions,
r a classical peer-review process. As a result, five
tributions are presented in this issue, giving a sense of
 variety of the topics addressed during this meeting.
The first contribution, by Frédéric Masson et al. (Masson
l., 2015), describes a new velocity field determined in
 region located south of the Dead Sea from repeated GPS
veys. Although their results are consistent with
viously published GPS measurements, increased reso-
on allows the authors to address the matter of locking
th, critical to earthquake hazard assessment, in more
ail, because the different surveys encompass a longer
e period.
Then two contributions address issues related to the
ord of historical earthquakes through the destruction of
torical buildings. Yacine Benjelloun et al. (Benjelloun et
2015) document details of the material used to build,
 potentially rebuild after an earthquake, an aqueduct in
Turkey, at the northern end of the Dead Sea fault. Miklós
Kázmér et al. (Kázmér and Major, 2015), along the same
line, report damage to several buildings along the Ghab
basin, in Syria, which are attributed to some historical
earthquakes. Details of the destructions and damage in a
nearby stone quarry are given, which confirm the
earthquake origin of destructions.
A contribution by Yossi Mart et al. (Mart and Vachtman,
2015) discusses the geodynamics of the Dead Sea fault to
emphasize its extensional component. Despite the fact that
they do not necessarily support the most consensual view
of the regional geodynamics, Mart and his colleagues
present solid field evidence that need to be incorporated
into the regional geodynamical models.
The last contribution, by Maud Hélène Devès et al.
(Devès et al., 2015), addresses the interaction between
evolving landscapes and the evolution of hominins in East
Africa and in the Levant region. They point how the
distribution of key minerals in soil, essential to the growth
of a mega fauna in the region, was driving the hominins’
survival strategies in these areas.
Eventually, these five contributions give a nice sam-
pling of all topics discussed during the 2013 ‘‘Levant
meeting’’, and are solid scientific contributions to the field
of earth sciences.
Yann Klinger, as the organizer of the ‘‘Levant fault’’
meeting, wants to thank Vincent Courtillot, for having
offered to publish some of the results presented during the
meeting in the Comptes rendus Geoscience.
References
Benjelloun, Y., Sigoyer, J. (de), Carlut, J., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Dessales, H.,
Pamir, H., Karabacak, V., 2015. Characterization of building materials
from the aqueduct of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (Turkey). C.R. Geosci-
ence 347, (this issue).
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Comptes Rendus Geoscience
ww w.s c ien c edi r ec t . c om
://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2015.06.0081-0713/ 2015 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Académie des sciences.
Foreword / C. R. Geoscience 347 (2015) 159–160160Devès, M.H., Reynolds, S., King, G.C.P., Sturdy, D., Godet, N., 2015. Insights
from Earth Sciences into Human Evolution studies: the example of
prehistoric landscape use in Africa and the Levant. C.R. Geoscience
347, (this issue).
Kázmér, M., Major, B., 2015. Safita castle and rockfalls in the ‘‘dead
villages’’ of coastal Syria – an archaeseismological study. C.R. Geosci-
ence 347, (this issue).
Mart, Y., Vachtman, D., 2015. The geodynamic interaction between the
Neogene rivers and the segmented Levant rift system. C.R. Geoscience
347, (this issue).
Masson, F., Hamiel, Y., Agnon, A., Klinger, Y., 2015. Variable behavior of the
Dead Sea Fault along the southern Arava segment from GPS measu-
rements. C.R. Geoscience 347, (this issue).
Guest Editor
Yann Klinger
Tectonique et mécanique de la lithosphère – Sismologie,
Institut de physique du globe de Paris, 1, rue Jussieu,
75238 Paris cedex 05, France
E-mail address: klinger@ipgp.fr
Available online 8 August 2015


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