Rejuvenation of the eastern Mediterranean passive continental margin in northern and central Sinai: new data from the Themed Fault

Examination of Themed Fault, a 200-km-long, E-W-oriented, high-angle right-lateral strike-slip fault, extending through central Sinai, helps analyze its slip sense, deformation type, relation to Tih Plateau and timing. Kinematic studies explain the relation of slip on this fault with Suez rift and the Dead Sea transform. Themed Fault exhibits a correlation with reactivation of Early Mesozoic Passive continental margin of north Sinai. Four different phases of central wrenching reactivate the E-W to ENE-WSW-oriented faults in northern Egypt.