The Mottled Zone, or the Hatrurim Formation (IMAGE)

St. Petersburg State University

The Mottled Zone, or the Hatrurim Formation

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The Mottled Zone, or the Hatrurim Formation. (a) Areas of outcrops of the Mottled Zone (brown spots) in the South Levant. The largest territories are the Hatrurim basin (Israel) and the Daba-Siwaqa complex (Jordan). (b) The Hatrurim Basin in the Negev Desert, Israel, and the Halamish bed -- the location of associations containing allabogdanite.

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Mineralogical Society of America

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