We just came back from a journey of 150 million years in three days…
As part of the “Tethys Sea to the Mediterranean” fieldtrip of the Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences in northern Israel, we climbed to the footsteps of the highest mountain in Israel (Mt Hermon) and went down to the Mediterranean Sea, in a journey through time. We learned the geology of the region and tried to understand why Israel is “the gift of the sea” and how the regional landscape was formed