Sedimentation in alluvial fans is considered as geological action that takes place annually with floods, active faults may be registered within some fans
Is this a question you have asked or you want people looking for transform faults to read your thesis?
Prof. Saif,
thank you for your answer (question), my thesis was not about the transform faulting, but with that while I was studying some aerial photos from Aqaba, I found some disturbances in the alluvial fans, and would like to have answers on them, if they can be related to the transform fault of the Dead Sea. Also I am looking for articles in the same regard.
Great , there is another Thesis by Kazem Rangzan on Zagros. He has looked at transform fault, he is on RG you can get in touch with him. I will also tell him to get in touch with you.
Mohammad I will try to look at it and hopefully we will try to provide some interpretation.
You may want to look at this article which may offer some approaches at discovering and analyzing the features you are seeing. DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50317
Stratigraphic architecture and fault offsets of alluvial terraces at Te Marua, Wellington fault, New Zealand, revealed by pseudo-3D GPR investigation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Volume 118, Issue 8, pages 4564–4585, August 2013
You will find examples of active faulting affecting sedimentation/flooding, eastern Doon Valley, and N. India in chapter 7 of A.M.J. Meijerink et al. Remote Sensing Applications to Groundwater. UNESCO, IHP-VI, Series on Groundwater, No. 16, 311p.,
which you can download from the UNESCO site.
There is also plenty of literature on alluvial fans offset by the Dead Sea Fault or one of its branches:
Klinger et al., 2000: Slip rate on the Dead Sea transform fault in northern Araba valley (Jordan). http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/142/3/755.full
Ginat et al., 1998: Translocated Plio-Pleistocene drainage systems along the Arava fault of the Dead Sea Transform. http://earth.huji.ac.il/data/pics/RP28.pdf
Niemi et al., 2001: Late Pleistocene and Holocene slip rate of the Northern Wadi Araba fault, Dead Sea Transform, Jordan. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1011487912054
There is ample evidence of fault offset of modern fans in the western US, especially the Death Valley area and surroundings. There is a lot of papers on these, you can start with looking for B.Troxek, L, Wright, B.Wernicke
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