Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews
Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews

Author: Zvi Garfunkel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9401788723

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The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory for investigation of the surficial, crustal and mantle processes occurring along transtensional and transpressional transform fault domains on a lithospheric scale and related to continental breakup. There have been many detailed and disciplinary studies of the Dead Sea transform fault zone during the last 20 years and this book brings them together. This book is an updated comprehensive coverage of the knowledge, based on recent studies of the tectonics, structure, geophysics, volcanism, active tectonics, sedimentology and paleo and modern climate of the Dead Sea transform fault zone. It puts together all this new information and knowledge in a coherent fashion.

Historical Seismology
Historical Seismology

Author: Julien Fréchet

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1402082223

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Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is dedicated to the use of new approaches and presents a state-of-the-art in historical seismology. Selected historical and recent earthquakes are chosen to document and constrain related seismic parameters using updated methodologies in the macroseismic analysis, field observations of damage distribution and tectonic effects, and modelling of seismic waveforms.

Islamic Maritime Law
Islamic Maritime Law

Author: Hassan Salih Khalilieh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789004109551

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This volume examines Islamic maritime law and practice of Muslim mariners during the classical period using Fatwa and Geniza sources. Maritime terminology, interrelationships of mariners, maritime commercial and military laws, territorial waters and the performance of Islamic religious duties at sea in the period are discussed.

1001 Inventions
1001 Inventions

Author: Salim T. S. Al-Hassani

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1426209347

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Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.

Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050)
Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050)

Author: Hassan Khalilieh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9047410297

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This work sheds light on the evolution of maritime law in the Mediterranean Sea between 800 and the 1050s, a period in maritime legal history whose gaps contemporary scholars have not attempted to bridge. It may allow scholars a better appreciation of the contribution which Islamic jurisprudence made to the development and internationalization of the law of the sea.