The Dead Sea Rift is a transformational continental fault that forms a long series of geomorphological depressions. It arose as a result of the division between the continents of Asia and Africa since the beginning of the Miocene.
The rift starts from the Taurus Mountains east of the city of Antakya in southern Turkey, passing through Syria and Lebanon, then separating Palestine and Jordan towards the Red Sea. It is a unique land-sea transition along its axis, and a large part of it is covered by water, the southern part of which consists of the Gulf of Eilat.