# Paleomagnetic-Geodynamic Mapping of the Transition Zone from Ocean to the Continent: A Review
## 4 Discussion and Conclusions  
The presence of hard explained phenomena of magneto-geophysics prompted combined paleomagnetic-radiometric mapping to reveal the geodynamics history based on the paleomagnetic age reconstruction. The applied mapping includes the procedures for paleomagnetic determination of age and the typification of the magnetized objects, making it possible to widely use the plate geodynamics concepts. It enables the description of the stages of development of various forms of magmatism under transition from the ocean to the continent. The broad integration of paleomagnetic mapping with other geophysical and geological methods significantly increases the efficiency of its application. Tectonic-paleomagnetic mapping as a new type of geological-geophysical survey contributed to the necessary amendment to the understanding of the nature and structure of the easternmost Mediterranean. The studied areas in northern Israel: Carmel, Atlit, Sea of Galilee, and Hula Basin, are unique objects from the geological point of view, and they are well investigated in various ways. However, their structure, geodynamics, and other critical questions of genesis are not clear and inexplicable. Therefore, we decided to apply the combined paleomagnetic mapping to investigate these intricate targets. Interestingly, for the mapping examination, a wide diapason of the paleomagnetic data was used: from the Paleozoic (Perman--Carboniferous)--Kiama paleomagnetic superzone in the easternmost Mediterranean [31] to the Holocene--almost modern volcano with a lake in the Birkat Ram crater in the Golan Heights [101]. Without hesitation, this study became possible only thanks to the many years of painstaking work of Israeli geologists and geophysicists, who created a vast database of paleomagnetic (e.g., [50; 70; 73; 75; 76; 85; 95; 97; 99; 102; 103]) and radiometric studies (e.g., [71; 72; 73; 74; 78; 81; 90; 97; 107]), data of geological mapping and tectonic reconstructions (e.g., [105; 30; 54; 57; 60; 61; 62; 76; 78; 79; 83; 84; 86; 87; 88; 93; 94; 97; 100; 104; 105; 106; 108]) for the territory of Israel. After changing the well-developed geosyncline theory to plate tectonics (convective geodynamics) and the decrease in standard geocartographic research worldwide, a methodological vacuum arose with the lack of mapping technology development. Our comprehensive studies in the African-Arabian region on the junction of Eurasia and Gondwana (e.g., [16]) with the application of paleomagnetic mapping techniques are the testing instrument for developing new kinds of combined investigations of geologically complex areas. Our comprehensive studies in the African-Arabian region on the junction of Eurasia and Gondwana (e.g., [16]) with the widespread application of paleomagnetic mapping techniques are the testing instrument for developing new kinds of combined investigations of geologically complex areas. Paleomagnetic profiling is a very rarely used but effective research method. The paleomagnetic profile constructed along the top of the accumulative leveling surface of the Lower Cretaceous traps (Figure 4) clearly unmasks the geodynamic history of the Carmel-Galilee region. This procedure is practically impossible to implement using other geophysical methods. This profile makes it possible to reveal the significant tectonic and geodynamic differences between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic traps, differing in thickness and partly to the composition. The latter are usually associated not with the collision stage but with the spreading processes in East Africa and the Red Sea [9; 15; 16; 112]. The beginning of the activation of this process 34 Ma ago is associated with a mantle plume near the Afar triangle. In the Narrat Ash Shaam volcanic field, the dikes of the most ancient traps have an age of 22-26 Ma [81], which corresponds to the boundary of the Oligocene and Miocene.