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The Red Sea Region

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The Ocean Basins and Margins

Abstract

The Red Sea occupies an elongated trough, or rift, separating Africa on the west from the Arabian Peninsula to the east. The trough, which strikes between NW-SE and NNW-SSE, extends some 1800 km from the Sinai Peninsula (27°50′N), where it bifurcates, forming the Gulf of Suez on the west and Gulf of Aqaba to the east, to the Straits of Bab El Mandab (12°40′N). Over the northern part of this extent, the African and Arabian shorelines maintain a remarkable parallelism 175 km apart. In the south, the coastlines become more sinuous (see Fig. 2) and here the Red Sea reaches its maximum width of 350 km before gradually narrowing to 30 to 40 km at the Straits of Bab El Mandab.

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El Shazly, E.M. (1982). The Red Sea Region. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8038-6_5

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