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Open Journal of Geology, 2012, 2, 241-252 /10.4236/ojg.2012.24024 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojg) Did Major Impacts Affect Sedimentologic/Sequence-Analytical Pattern of the Early Palaeozoic Sedimentary Systems of Jordan, Arabian Plate? 1 2 Werner Schneider , Elias Salameh 1Im Ziegenförth 15, D-38108 Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 2University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Email: schneiderolaf@, salameli@.jo Received July 31, 2012; revised August 29, 2012; accepted September 28, 2012 ABSTRACT Based on profound sequence-analytical data of the early Palaeozoic sedimentary systems of Jordan, Arabian Plate, a correlation attempt is proposed with regard to possible major impact events after Price. His methodological concept tells that abrupt changes of both direction and speed of plate motion would indicate such convulsion processes as occurred on: 550 Ma, 526.5 Ma, 514 Ma, 456/455 Ma and 441 Ma. Referring to the fact that major impacts may trigger, respec- tively influence, exogenic and endogenic processes on an over-regional, even global, extent, this paper put the “sen- sitive” geological setting of Jordan at the Arabian Platform’s margin into focus. That mainly concerns the early Pa- laeozoic coastlines as to sea level change as well as the Jordan Valley Rift as being possibly to susceptible for tec- tonic re-activation changes of both direction and speed of plate motions would indicate such convulsive processes as occurred on: 550 Ma, 526.5 Ma, 514 Ma, 502 Ma, 456/455.4 Ma, and following triggering of magmatism at the Pre- cambrian/Cambrian boundary. The following phenomena are taken i