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  2. Jordan Rift Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Jordan Rift Valley was formed many millions of years ago in the Miocene epoch (23.8 – 5.3 Myr ago) when the Arabian plate moved northward and then eastward away from Africa. One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Rift Valley rose so that the sea water stopped flooding the area. Alternatively, it was a ...

  3. Jordan Valley - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays the Jordan Valley still is an essential part of one of the main migration routes for birds in the world; within the region, it constitutes the Eastern Route which, together with the parallel Western Route and the Southern-Eilat Mountains Route, allow an estimated 500 million birds belonging 200 species to fly across Israel twice a year ...

  4. Arabah - Wikipedia

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    The old meaning, which was in use up to around the early 20th century, covered almost the entire length of what today is called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea at Aqaba–Eilat.

  5. Category:Valleys of Asia - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 February 2021, at 08:53 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake - Wikipedia

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    An earthquake struck the Jordan Rift Valley on December 5, AD 1033 and caused extreme devastation in the Levant region. It was part of a sequence of four strong earthquakes in the region between 1033 and 1035. Scholars have estimated the moment magnitude to be greater than 7.0 M w and evaluated the Modified Mercalli intensity to X (Extreme).

  7. Jordanian Highlands - Wikipedia

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    To the west the highlands drop steeply 1,000 meters or more to the Jordan Rift Valley, which contains the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, a saline lake with a surface below sea level. [ 1 ] Elevation of the higher peaks ranges from over 1,200 meters in the north to 1,700 meters at Jebel Mubarak in the south.

  8. Jordan Valley (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Jordan Valley may also refer to: Jordan Rift Valley, an elongated geographical depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, of which the Jordan Valley is a part; Jordan Valley, Hong Kong, north of Ngau Tau Kok, Kwun Tong District Jordan Valley (constituency), a constituency in Kwun Tong District; Jordan Valley, Oregon, U.S.

  9. Geology of Jordan - Wikipedia

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    East of the Jordan River Valley, the land surface eroded to a nearly flat peneplain and many Proterozoic sediments were eroded. Before Cambrian sediments began to accumulate quartz porphyry lavas erupted to the surface. Tectonic conditions favored the preservation of Proterozoic sediments in the Wadi al'Arabah as Cambrian sandstones began to form.