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The objective of the present work is to determine and partly interpret the sea floor morphological features in the Levant basin based on bathymetric analyses and taking into account previous geological and geophysical studies.

Bathymetry processing has been achieved by applying a new algorithm for the automatic enhancement and the identification of the linear patterns. According to this method, the Slope and Aspect images, as well as their derivatives are initially computed. Then, a rotation and scale-invariant filter produces an image of the automatic detected geomorphologic features in the study area.

The Levant basin comprises a geodynamically active area, where strong tectonic deformation takes part, resulting to the presence of extensional and contractional structures, strike slip motions, submarine landslides and density flows of sediments. All the previous phenomena are identified with sufficient accuracy in position and shape based on the bathymetric analyses of this work.

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