Map showing the STP (Saida-Tyr Platform) as a key structure acting on the propagation of the Levant Fracture System. The dashed zone corresponds to the “hinge zone” after Steckler and Brink (1986) and its suggested extension in the Lebanese domain. Note the presence of anticlines that are located at the boundary between the continental crust to the east, and the thinned continental crust of the Levant Basin to the west.