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GOLAN PLATEAU 
The image covers only the northernment edge of 
this unit. It is characterized on the sothern margin 
of the scene by a nearly uniformly dark color. It is 
a vast gently east sloping fan of volcanic materials 
flowing from the fracture which limits the Anti- 
Lebanon at the south of Mount Hermon. 
Closer scrutiny helps to distinguish between two 
different untis. 
- a lower unit consisting of dark-colored formations 
which appear, particularly in the Hineh region, as 
interbedded in light-colored formations. It is pitted 
with red spots revealing crops. Its boundary with 
the Quaternary fills of the Awaj river is difficult to 
trace certainly, 
- a lighter-colored upper unit forming a irregular 
east/west band, nearly 35 km long, with a width 
fluctuating between | and 6 km. This is a recent 
and nearly unweathered flow. 
It supports virtually no crops, and, in its upstream par 
edge, it invades valleys associted with the present 
drainage pattern (south of Beit Jinn). 
The different volcanic flows are interbedded in 
the continental formations of the Damascus 
basin. They belong to the same tectonic unit, 
the Arabian shelf. 
CONCLUSION 
Geologically, the region covered by the scene 
recorded by SPOT 1 on 12 and 13 March 1986 
in the Damascus region lies at the crossroads 
of three of the middle East's major structural 
units : 
- the Anti-Lebanon Range, 
- the Palmyra Range, 
- the Arabian Shelf. 
The boundaries between these units appears 
to be marked by sinistral slip faults. They tend 
to imply that the structure, although affected 
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