The faults have two main directions (N15E and N60W). The faulted blocks are inclined towards the rift, with fault scarps that generally face the opposite direction away from it (Hildebrand et al., 1974).Abdel Khalek et al. (1993)distinguished four structural phases during the Aqaba rifting: Aquitanian-Burdigalian,
Late Middle-Late Miocene, Pliocene and post-Pliocene-Late Holocene. Also, they advocated that the NNE faults are of sinistral slip
whereas the NW faults are dextral