LIST OF PUBLICATIONS – 2000-2006
Yossi Mart
Reinhardt, E.G., Goodman, B.N., Boyce, J.I., Lopez, G., van Hengstum, P., Rink, W.J., Mart, Y.,
Raban, A., in press. The Tsunami of December 13, 115 A.D. and the destruction of Herod
the Great’s Harbor at Caesarea Maritima, Israel. Geology, Article ID: G22780
Lunina, O.V., Mart, Y., Gladkov, A.S., 2005. Fracturing patterns, stress fields and earthquakes in
the southern Dead Sea rift. J. Geodynamics, 40: 216-234.
Mart, Y., Aharonov, E., Mulugeta, G., Ryan, W.B.F., Tentler, T., Goren, L., 2005. Analog
modeling of the initiation of subduction. Geophys. J. Int., 160, 1081-1091
Mart, Y., Ryan, W.B.F., Lunina, O.V., 2005. Review of the tectonics of the Levant Rift system:
the structural significance of oblique continental breakup. Tectonophysics, 395: 209-232.
Mart, Y., 2003. The Geological History of the Mediterranean Sea. Ministry of Defense Press, Tel
Aviv, (in Hebrew), 185 p.
Mart Y. and Friedmann, D., 2003. Sedimentological evidence in the coast of Ma'agan Michael,
central Israel. in: The Ma'agan Michael Shipwreck, Vol. I. Editor: Y. Kahanov and E.
Linder, pp. 17-26.
Mart, Y. and Ryan, W.B.F., 2002. The Complex Tectonic Regime of Cyprus Arc: A Short
Review. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 51: 117-134.
Mart, Y., Ganor, J., Starinsky, A., 2002 (Editors). Special issue honoring Eytan Sass and Amitai
Katz on the occasion of their 70th birthdays. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 51 (3-4):
117-310.
Mart, Y., 2000. Eratosthenes Seamount: Key to the Tectonic Patterns of the SE Mediterranean.
Current Research, Geological Survey of Israel, 12: 185-193.
Mart, Y. and Dauteuil, O., 2000. Analogue experiments of propagation of oblique rifts.
Tectonophysics, 316: 121-132.
Rabinowitz, N. and Mart, Y., 2000. Seismic tomography of the Dead Sea region: thinned crust,
anomalous velocities and possible magmatic diapirism. In: B.C. Vendeville, Y. Mart and
J.L. Vigneresse (Editors), From the Arctic to the Mediterranean: Salt, Shale and Igneous
Diapirs in and Around Europe. Spec. Pub. Geol. Soc. London, 174, pp. 79-92.
Vendeville, B.C., Y. Mart and J.L. Vigneresse,(Editors), 2000. From the Arctic to the
Mediterranean: Salt, Shale and Igneous Diapirs in and Around Europe. Spec. Pub. Geol.
Soc. London, 174, 207 p.
Gaullier, V., Mart, Y., Bellaiche, G., Mascle, J., Vendeville, B.C., Zitter, T. and second leg
PRISMED II Sience Party, 2000. Salt tectonics in and around the nile deep-sea fan:
insights from the PRISMED II cruise. In: B.C. Vendeville, Y. Mart and J.L. Vigneresse
(Editors), From the Arctic to the Mediterranean: Salt, Shale and Igneous Diapirs in and
Around Europe. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 174, pp. 111-129.
Bellaiche, G., Zitter, T., Droz, L., Gaullier, V., Mart, Y., Mascle, J., et l'équipe scientifique
embarquée, 1999. Le cône sous-marin profond du Nil : principaux résultats de la
campagne Prismed II du N.O. l'Atalante. C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris, 329: 727-733.
Mart, Y. and Rabinowitz, N., 1999. Tomographic imaging of 3-D seismic velocity structure
under the Dead Sea rift. Rifting in Intracontinental Setting. Third Annual Meeting of
International Geological Correlation Program 400. Irkutsk, Russia, August 1999; p. 125127.
Belknap, D.P. and Mart, Y., 1999. Shelf-edge marine terrace off northern Israel and late
Pleistocene sealevel variations. J. Coastal Res., 15: 399-412.
Robertson, A.H.F.., Emeis, K.C., Richter, C., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Bouloubassi, I., Brumsack,
H.J., Cramp, A., de Lange, G.J., di Stefano, E., Flecker, R., Frankel, E., Howell, M.W.,
Janecek, T.R., Jurado-Rodriguez, M.J., Kemp, A.E.S., Koizumi, I., Kopf, A., Major, C.O.,
Mart, Y., Pribnow, D.F.C., Rabaute, A., Roberts, A., Rullkoetter, J.H., Sakamoto, T.,
Spezzaferri, S., Staerker, S.C., Stoner, J.S., Whiting, B.M., and Woodside, J.M.,, 1998.
Collision-related break-up of a carbonate platform (Eratosthenes Seamount) and mud
volcanism in the Mediterranean Ridge: preliminary synthesis and implications of tectonic
results of ODP Leg 160 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. In: A. Cramp, C.J. McLeod,
S.V. Lee, E.J.W. Jones (Editors), Geological Evolution of Ocean Basins. The Geological
Society, London, Special Publication No. 131, pp. 243-272.
Rabinowitz, N. and Mart, Y., 1998. Reply to comment, Mantle diapirs in the lower crust under
the Dead Sea. Tectonics, 17: 821-822.
Mart, Y., and Robertson, A.H.F. (1998). Lithological characteristics of Eratosthenes Seamount,
southern Cyprus and the southern Levant in the Cretaceous and early Tertiary. In: Emeis,
K.C., Robertson, A.H.F. et al. (Editors) Proc. ODP Sci. Results, 160. College Station, TX
(Ocean Drilling Program), pp 701-708.
Böttcher, M., Mart, Y. and Brumsack, H.J. (1998). Data report: Geochemistry of Pliocene and
Miocene carbonates from the Eratosthenes Seamount (Site 965). In: Emeis, K.C.,
Robertson, A.H.F. et al. (Editors) Proc. ODP Sci. Results, 160. College Station, TX
(Ocean Drilling Program), pp 447-452.
Dauteuil, O. and Mart, Y. 1998. Strike-slip faults and pull-apart basins. Tectonics. 17: 303-310.
Mart, Y. and Rabinowitz, N., 1997. Thermal anomaly in the upper mantle and lower crust in thee
Dead Sea region. In: A.W.B. Jacob, D. Delvaux, M.A. Khan (Editors), Lithospheric
Structure, Evolution and Sedimentation in Continental Rifts. Proceedings of IGCP 400:
Continental Rifts. Dublin, May 1997, pp. 66-70.
Stanley, D.J., Mart, Y., and Nir, Y. 1997. Clay mineral distributions to interpret Nile cell
provenance and dispersal: II. Coastal plain from Nile delta to northern Israel. J. Coastal
Res. 13: 506-533.
Mart, Y., A.H.F. Robertson, J.M. Woodside, and ODP Leg 160 Shipboard Science Party, 1997.
Cretaceous tectonic setting of Eratosthenes Seamount in the eastern Mediterranean
Neotethys: initial results of ODP Leg 160. Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences
de Paris, 324 (IIa): 127-134.
Mart, Y. and Perecman I., 1996. Differential neo-tectonic offsets: recent displacement and
stability along the coastal fault of Caesarea. A. Raban and K. Holum (Editors) Caesarea
Maritima - Retrospective After Two Millenia. E.J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 3-24
Kempler, D., Mart, Y., Herut, B. and McCoy, F., 1996. Diapiric structures in the SE
Mediterranean. Mar. Geol., 134: 237-248.
Mart, Y.,1996, Neo-tectonic activity at the proximal continental shelf off Atlit, northern Israel.
Geo-Mar. Lett., 16: 41-48.
Mart, Y. and Perecman, I., 1966. Neotectonic activity along the coast in Caesarea, central Israel.
Tectonophysics, 254: 139-153.
Emeis, K.C., Robertson, A.H.F., Richter, C., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Bouloubassi, I., Brumsack,
H.J., Cramp, A., de Lange, G.J., di Stefano, E., Flecker, R., Frankel, E., Howell, M.W.,
Janecek, T.R., Jurado-Rodriguez, M.J., Kemp, A.E.S., Koizumi, I., Kopf, A., Major, C.O.,
Mart, Y., Pribnow, D.F.C., Rabaute, A., Roberts, A., Rullkoetter, J.H., Sakamoto, T.,
Spezzaferri, S., Staerker, S.C., Stoner, J.S., Whiting, B.M., and Woodside, J.M., 1966.
Procedings of the Ocan Drilling Program. Vol. 160, Initial Reports, Mediterranean I.
Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 972 pp.
Rabinowitz, N., Steinberg, J. and Mart, Y., 1996. Mantle diapirs in the lower crust under the
Dead Sea. Tectonics, 15 (2), 237-243
Robertson, A.H.F.., Emeis, K.C., Richter, C., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Bouloubassi, I., Brumsack,
H.J., Cramp, A., de Lange, G.J., di Stefano, E., Flecker, R., Frankel, E., Howell, M.W.,
Janecek, T.R., Jurado-Rodriguez, M.J., Kemp, A.E.S., Koizumi, I., Kopf, A., Major, C.O.,
Mart, Y., Pribnow, D.F.C., Rabaute, A., Roberts, A., Rullkoetter, J.H., Sakamoto, T.,
Spezzaferri, S., Staerker, S.C., Stoner, J.S., Whiting, B.M., and Woodside, J.M.,, 1996.
Mud volcanism on the Mediterranean Ridge: Initial results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg
160. Geology, 24(3): 239-242.
Robertson, A.H.F., Emeis, K.C., Richter, C., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Bouloubassi, I., Brumsack,
H.J., Cramp, A., de Lange, G.J., di Stefano, E., Flecker, R., Frankel, E., Howell, M.W.,
Janecek, T.R., Jurado-Rodriguez, M.J., Kemp, A.E.S., Koizumi, I., Kopf, A., Major, C.O.,
Mart, Y., Pribnow, D.F.C., Rabaute, A., Roberts, A., Rullkoetter, J.H., Sakamoto, T.,
Spezzaferri, S., Staerker, S.C., Stoner, J.S., Whiting, B.M., and Woodside, J.M.,, 1996.
Collisional processes examined in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. EOS Trans. AGU 77:
62.
ODP Legs 160 and 161 shipboard scientific parties, 1996. Drilling probes Mediterranean climate
and oceanography. EOS Trans. AGU 77: 19,21.
Robertson, A.H.F., Emeis, K.C., Richter, C., Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Bouloubassi, I., Brumsack,
H.J., Cramp, A., de Lange, G.J., di Stefano, E., Flecker, R., Frankel, E., Howell, M.W.,
Janecek, T.R., Jurado-Rodriguez, M.J., Kemp, A.E.S., Koizumi, I., Kopf, A., Major, C.O.,
Mart, Y., Pribnow, D.F.C., Rabaute, A., Roberts, A., Rullkoetter, J.H., Sakamoto, T.,
Spezzaferri, S., Staerker, S.C., Stoner, J.S., Whiting, B.M., and Woodside, J.M. 1995.
Evidence of collisional processes associated with ophiolitic obduction in the eastern
Mediterranean: results from Ocean Drilling Program leg 160. GSA Today, 5: 213,219-221
Bellaiche, G. and Mart, Y., 1995. Morphostructure, growth patterns and tectonic control of the
Rhone and Nile deep-sea fans: a comparison. AAPG Bull. 79 (2): 259-284.
Mart, Y., 1994. The Dead Sea rift, a leaky transform fault or an oblique spreading center: a short
review. Africa Geoscience Review 1: 567-578.
Mart, Y. and Woodside, J.M. (Editors), 1994. Tectonic Processes of the Eastern Mediterranean
and Analogous Regions. Special Issue, Tectonophysics, vol. 234, 94 pp.
Mart, Y.,1994. The tectonic origin of the Senonian marine basin underneath the southeastern
Mediterranean Sea. Tectonophysics, 234: 5-18.
Mart, Y., 1993. The sedimentological and geomorphological provinces of the Nile Fan. In: E.G.
Rhodes and T.F. Moslow (Editors), Marine Clastic Reservoirs: Examples and Analogs.
Springer-Verlag, New york NY, Ch. 5, pp. 101-112.
Mart, Y., 1991. Some Cretaceous and early Tertiary structures along the distal continental
margin of the southeastern Mediterranean. Israel J. Earth Sci., 40: 77-90.
Mart, Y., 1991. Dynamic geology of the climate. Mahshavot, 60: 30-41 (in Hebrew).
Mart, Y., and Belknap, D.F., 1991. Origin of late Pleistocene submerged marine terrace on the
outer continental shelf, northern Israel. Geo-Mar. Lett, 11: 66-70.
Mart, Y., 1991. The Dead Sea Rift: from continental rift to incipient ocean. Tectonophysics, 197:
155-179.
Weinstein-Evron, M., Y. Mart and A. Beck, 1991. Geophysical investigations of the El-Wad
Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel. Geoarchaeology 6: 355-366.
Mart, Y., 1990. Deep Time and Dynamic Geology. Ministry of Defense Press, Tel Aviv, 150 p.
(in Hebrew).
Mart, Y., 1989. Sediment distribution in Akhziv Canyon off northern Israel. Geo-Mar. Lett., 9:
77:83.
Mart, Y., 1988. The tectonic setting of the Seychelles, Mescarene and Amirante Plateaus in the
western equatorial Indian Ocean. Mar. Geol., 79: 261-274.
Ben-Avraham, Z. and Mart, Y. 1987. Geologal patterns of the continental slope off northern
Sinai. in: G. Gvirtzman et al., (Editors), Sinai. Tel Aviv University Press, pp. 121-130, (in
Hebrew).
Mart, Y., 1987. Superpositional tectonic patterns along the continental margin of the
southeastern Mediterranean: a review. Tectonophysics, 140: 213-232.
Mart, Y. and Ross, D.A. 1987. Rifts and diapirs in the northern Red Sea. Mar. Geol., 74: 173190.
Mart, Y., 1986. The Arava rift - an incipient ocean? Ofakim BeGeographia, 15: 5-20 (in
Hebrew, abstract in English).
Mart, Y. and Rabinowitz, P.D., 1986. The northern Red Sea and the Dead Sea rift.
Tectonophysics, 124: 85-113.
Bentor, Y.K. and Mart, J., 1984. The metallogenic map of Israel. in: L. Laffitte et al. (Editors),
Explanatory Memoir of the Metallogenic Map of Europe and Neighbouring Countries
1:2,500,000. UNESCO Paris, p. 537-542.
Mart, Y. and Hall, J.K., 1984. Structural trends in the northern Red Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 89:
11,352-11,364.
Mart, J., 1984. A tectonic model of an incipient spreading center and its margins: the northern
Red Sea and the Dead Sea rift. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A_&M Univ., College Station,
Texas, 167 p. See also #72
Mart, Y. and Rabinowitz, P.D., 1984. Possible diapirs in the Gulf of Elat, southern Dead Sea rift.
Geo-Mar. Lett., 4: 63-67.
Mart, Y., 1984. The tectonic regime of the southeastern Mediterranean continental margin. Mar.
Geol., 55: 365-386.
Pautot, G., Le Cann, C., Coutelle, A. and Mart, Y., 1984. Morphology and extension of the
evaporitic structures of the Liguro-Provencel basin: new Seabeam data. Mar. Geol., 55:
387-409.
Mart, Y., 1983. Quaternary tectonic patterns along the continental margin of the southeastern
Mediterranean - reply. Mar. Geol., 53: 235-236.
Mart, Y., 1982. Quaternary tectonic patterns along the continental margin of the southeastern
Mediterranean. Mar. Geol., 49: 327-344.
Mart, Y., 1982. Incipient spreading center in the Gulf of Elat, northern Red Sea. Earth Planet.
Sci. Lett., 60: 117-126.
Mart, Y. and Eisin, B., 1982. Some faulting patterns along the continental slope off Israel and
their tectonic significance. Mar. Geophys. Res., 5: 249-262.
Mart, Y. and Ben-Gai, Y., 1982. Some depositional patterns at the continental margin of the
southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Am. Ass. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 60: 460-470.
Mart, Y. and Horowitz, A., 1981. The tectonics of the Timna region in southern Israel and the
evolution of the Dead Sea rift. Tectonophysics, 79: 165-199.
Ben-Avraham, Z. and Mart, Y., 1981. Late Tertiary structure and stratigraphy of North Sinai
continental margin. Am. Ass. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 65: 1135-1145.
Goldsmith, V., Burdick, B., Bowman, D., Mart, Y., Kiley, K. and Goldsmith, Y. 1981. Crescentic
bar development and dynamics on a microtidal, moderate wave energy coast, eastern
Mediterranean. Proc. XVII Coastal Engin. Conf.
Mart, Y., Auffret, G.A., Auzende, J.M. and Pastouret, L., 1979. Geological observations from a
submersible dive on the western slope of the Armorican Massif. Mar. Geol., 31: M61M68.
Le Pichon, X., Angelier, J., Aubouin, J., Lyberis, N., Monti, S., Renard, V., Got, H., Hsu, K.,
Mart, Y., Mascle, J., Matthews, D., Mitropoulos, D., Tsoflias, P. and Chronis, M., 1979.
From subduction to transform motion: a Seabeam survey of the Hellenic trench system.
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 44: 441-450.
Mart, Y., Eisin, B. and Folkman, Y., 1978. The Palmahim structure - a model of continuous
tectonics of the SE Mediterranean since the Upper Miocene. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 39:
328-334.
Mart, J. and Sass, E., 1972. Geology and origin of the manganese ore of Um Bogma, Sinai. Econ.
Geol., 67: 145-155.