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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"aqaba"”.
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Assessment of Seismic Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Aqaba
Aqaba and Elat are very important port and recreation cities for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Israel, respectively. The two cities are the most susceptible to damage from a destructive future earthquake because they are located over the tectonically active Dead Sea transform fault (DST) that …
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Aqaba's Old Town : proposed model for community development within the Aqaba Special Economic Zone
… Economic Zone in 2001 and Jordan's only port, Aqaba has been experiencing a major economic boom and rapid development at a scale previously unprecedented in Jordan. Under the governance of the Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) investments and growth so far have largely focused on new …
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Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology along the Southern Dead Sea Transform in Wadi 'Arabah Near the municipality of Aqaba, Jordan
… Early Islamic Ayla (7th-12th C.) in the city of Aqaba, Jordan revealed that a 3.5 m-long section of original city wall that leans out toward the Gulf of Aqaba was likely damaged because of liquefaction caused by ground shaking from a historic earthquake, and was buttressed shortly thereafter. …
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Environmental assessment, documentation and spatial modeling of heavy metal pollution along the Jordan Gulf of Aqaba using coral reefs as environmental indicator
… regular samples taken along the coastline of Aqaba (27km long) at depths of 4-15m, and used to determine spatial distribution of pollution. The second phase included three 20cm-deep cores obtained from within the industrial zone. These cores were drilled from pre-dated communities, where the …
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U-series dating of diagenetically altered fossil reef corals and the application for sea level reconstruction
… Arbeit werden fossile Riffkorallen aus Aqaba, Jordanien, und Barbados, Westindische Inseln, untersucht. Die Porites Korallen aus Aqaba zeigen einen hohen Grad diagenetischer Veränderungen und sind daher ideal geeignet, um die diagenetischen Prozesse zu untersuchen. Mithilfe eines …
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Red Sea Polychaetes from the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba) : a contribution to the knowledge of the Polychaeta fauna and the environmental conditions which affects its distribution
A study of 50 samples of Polychaeta mainly from a northern profile (0.5 - 550 m) and down to 800 m, reveals that the fauna is characterised by extremely small specimens and a great taxonomic divergence. Techniques of handling minute specimens are described, together with 21 new species, including …
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Hydrogeo-Eco-Systems in Aquaba/Jordan - Coasts and Region
The coast of Aqaba and the Aqaba region (Jordan) were investigated on their hydrogeo-ecosystem. The results of the research were translated into digits to build a geo-spatial data base. The fillings of the graben aquifer receive indirect type of recharge through the side wadis which drain the …
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Vertical Resource Partitioning and Sexuality of Three Sympatric Species of Red Sea Sandfishes (Xyrichtys melanopus, Labridae; Trichonotus nikii, Trichonotidae; Gorgasia sp., Congridae)
… pollution on the b iota of the Northern Gulf of Aqaba are noted.
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Morphological, ecological and molecular examination of the seacucumber species along the Red Sea coast of Egypt and Gulf of Aqaba : with the investigation of the possibility of using DNA barcoding technique as a standard method for seacucumber ID
… of the Red Sea coast of Egypt and Gulf of Aqaba were examined in order to resolve some of the long standing question on the identification and classification of sea cucumber.The introduction of the new barcoding technique as a tool for sea cucumber identification was also tested in this …
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Case Study of Development of the Peripheral Coastal Area of South Sinai in Relation to its Bedouin Community
… large-scale tourism development on the Gulf of Aqaba coast. Its Bedouin community is facing great challenges in its struggle for livelihood and transformation from a pastoral and fishing community to an urbanized one. This case study employs a political ecology approach to examine development on …
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Nemo no more? Spatial demographic and population genetic analyses of the two-band anemonefish, Amphiprion bicinctus, in the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea
… from anemonefish near Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan. DNA sequence data was obtained through restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing to allow for the identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). I did not observe any self-recruitment in the Gulf of Eilat based on …
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Interpretation of Potential Fields by Modern Data Processing and 3-dimensional gravity Modeling of the Dead Sea Pull-Apart Basin / Jordan Rift Valley (JRV)
… Wadi Araba area, Gharandal, Timna (Qa'-Taba) and Aqaba (Elat) basin. The three basins become successively wider and deeper to the south. The three regional gravity long E-W profiles (225 km) from the Mediterranean Sea crossing the Rift Valley to the east to the Saudi Arabia borders, show the …
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The water resources structures on the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim routes to Makka and Medinah
… S .Wit stretched from Haql on the Gulf of AI-' Aqaba as far as MAKKA. These routes consist of the major, or principal caravan routes as well as a number of traverse routes which allow travellers a choice of transit as well as connecting routes. There are large way stations as well as small minor …