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Fig. 11,18. The AD system of the Dead Sea-Jordan
Rift. a Lisan Lake and its drainage area (present situation). b Cartoons showing the evolution of the
transform fault zone and its sediment filiing in three
stages from an (open) protorift depression via a
semiclosed marine salt lagoon to a deep, closed puliapart basin system. c Tentative geohistory analysis of
Dead Sea region. See text for further explanation and
references