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1. Structural pattern of the Levant. processes. The present chapter deals with the entire Levant; otherwise, the overall pattern of the tectonic framework would be lost in unnecessary details. The Arabo-Nubian Massif, which constitutes the northeasternmost corner of the African Craton, is ex­ posed only at the southernmost part of Israel in the Elat area. 1), but, to the east of the Arava, in Transjordan, it extends as far north as the Dead Sea. The Arabo-Nubian Massif was peneplained in Late Precambrian times and is encircled by younger, platform sediments, mostly deposited in fluviatile or shallow marine environments.

44. Sebkha soil, south of the Dead Sea. 2 8 / 2 PRESENT-DAY CONFIGURATION ENVIRONMENTS, FAUNA, AND FLORA Israel lies at the junction point for three continents— Europe, Asia and Africa—and, at least from Miocene times onward (Horowitz 1974), served as a continental bridge that allowed migrations of plants and animals from one continent to another. 45). Two other major environmental belts are represented in Israel: the tropical Sudano-Deccanian, in some of the desert oases, and the Palaearctic, represented only by several plants and animals that have succeeded in finding suitable ecologic niches in the present, after having inhabited the country in earlier days under somewhat different cli­ mates.

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