Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Delek Drilling LP, Avner Oil Exploration LP, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, Alon Gas Exploration LTD, Isramco Negev 2 LP, Noble Energy Inc., Adira Energy, and the Pelagic Partnership for their permission to release seismic data. Thanks to the National Archive for seismic data at the Geophysical Institution of Israel for providing the Isramco Southern Israel and the Gal-C surveys. Thanks to the Israel Institution of Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) and to J. K. Hall for permission to use the national bathymetric grid for the shelf and slope area. Regional bathymetric data for the northwestern part of the basin was derived from the EMODnet portal—//:httpwww.emodnet-hydrography.eu. Special thanks to the universities of Tel Aviv and Haifa for scientific cooperation.

Reference: Gvirtzman, Z., Reshef, M. Buch-Leviatan, O., Groves-Gidney, G., Karcz, Z., Makovsky, Y., Ben-Avraham, Z., 2015. Bathymetry of the Levant basin: interaction of salt-tectonics and surficial mass movements, Marine Geology, 360, 25-39. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.12.001

Ocean Floor Morphology in the Southern Levant Basin

Zohar Gvirtzman

Geological Survey of Israel, January 2015

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