Faulting patterns in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge potentially influence groundwater flow paths

Inbar, Nimrod; Rosenthal, Eliahu; Magri, Fabien; Alraggad, Marwan; Möller, Peter; Flexer, Akiva; Guttman, Joseph; Siebert, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-763-2019

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11 Feb 2019

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| 11 Feb 2019

Faulting patterns in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge potentially influence groundwater flow paths

Nimrod Inbar, Eliahu Rosenthal, Fabien Magri, Marwan Alraggad, Peter Möller, Akiva Flexer, Joseph Guttman, and Christian Siebert

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 May 2018
- AC1: 'Answering Referee 1', Nimrod Inbar, 30 Jul 2018
RC2: 'review', Armin Margane, 30 May 2018
- AC2: 'Answering Referee 2', Nimrod Inbar, 30 Jul 2018
RC3: 'Review of Inbar et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Jun 2018
- AC3: 'Answering Referee 3', Nimrod Inbar, 30 Jul 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (14 Aug 2018) by Efrat Morin

AR by Nimrod Inbar on behalf of the Authors (15 Sep 2018)

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (24 Sep 2018) by Efrat Morin

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Oct 2018) by Efrat Morin

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (16 Oct 2018)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

I have reread the article “Faulting patterns in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge - potentially influence groundwater flow paths” by Inbar et al. in great detail. I agree that the manuscript has been improved but there are a few things that still bother me. I would have chosen "Moderate Revision" but there was no such option.

The authors state that the manuscript has undergone English editing, but at some point I found myself fixing simple mistakes again and again (see attached annotated manuscript). This is not my job and I am sure that I have missed a lot of things. Please fix the English.

DST versus DSF - Google Scholar gives 4670 results for "Dead Sea transform" and 4050 for “Dead Sea fault” (If you’re going to use Google Scholar as an argument, at least use it correctly). The term “Dead Sea transform” is outdated. Therefore citing Garfunkel and other sources is irrelevant. During the last 10 years there has been a strong movement in the geological community to change this to confirm with worldwide nomenclature – it is the San Andreas fault, the east Anatolian fault, the Alpine fault and therefore, the Dead Sea fault. I will not insist, but it is a point you should be aware of.

There are two small issues that need to be addressed (lines 157-158; 180). Please see my comments on the annotated manuscript. I am also missing a final figure that summarizes the findings. This leads me on to the next point…

The main concern I have is that I still find the article lacking in strong implications. So it is a new fault map and I agree that it has hydrological consequences, but at the end of the day, it is still just a local fault map. If you want to publish in an international journal, it should have some more far-reaching implications. I understand the scope of the research, but why would the article interest someone in the United States? Why should someone in Australia read it? It is missing something fundamental to take it to that next level. It is really not that difficult to do – a few sentences in the introduction and a few more in the conclusions – If areas where strike-slip meet collision haven’t been modeled or studied (lines 231-235), use this to your advantage...

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (24 Oct 2018) by Efrat Morin

AR by Nimrod Inbar on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2018)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Dec 2018) by Efrat Morin

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (24 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Dec 2018) by Efrat Morin

AR by Nimrod Inbar on behalf of the Authors (02 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In areas of enigmatic hydrology, water scarcity, and transboundary water resources, management strategies should rely on comprehensive modeling which must be based on realistic geometry, including all relevant structural features. Based on available geophysical and geological data, a new faulting pattern in the Lower Yarmouk Gorge is suggested as a basis for hydrogeological modeling. Furthermore, unexpected pull-apart basin rim fault evolution is discussed in the context of tectonic collision.