Gravitational Folds and Compressional Structures Related with Normal Faults in the Suez Rift

P073 GRAVITATIONAL FOLDS AND COMPRESSIONAL STRUCTURES RELATED WITH NORMAL FAULTS IN THE SUEZ RIFT. 1 BERNARD COLLETTA EMMANUELLE PIRON DENIS MARCHAL and ISABELLE MORETTI Institut Francais du Petrole 1 et 4 Avenue de Bois Preau 92506 Rueil Malmaison France The Gulf of Suez which is one of the best exposed rift example developed in a simple extensional regime during Neogene times. As most of the extensional systems it is mainly described by large tilted basement blocks bounded by major normal faults. In spite of a purely extensional regime numerous medium scale compressional structures developed mainly in the hanging wall of