GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anti-Lebanon Mountains, Arabic Al-jabal Ash-sharqī, orLubnān Ash-sharqī, French Anti-liban, mountain range that runs northeast-southwest along the Syrian-Lebanese border parallel to the Lebanon Mountains, from which they are separated by the al-Biqāʿ Valley.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Anti-Lebanon Mountain range is located at the Lebanese-Syrian border between the Bekaa Plain in the west and the Damascus Plain in the east. The mountain range stretches from the Homs Plain in the north to beyond its highest peak, Mount Hermon, in the south.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lebanon Mountains, Arabic Jabal Lubnān, French Mont Liban, also called Jabal Al-gharbī, or Mt. Lebanon, mountain range, extending almost the entire length of Lebanon, paralleling the Mediterranean coast for about 150 mi (240 km), with northern outliers extending into Syria.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lebanon is bounded to the north and east by Syria, to the south by Israel, and to the west by the Mediterranean Sea.

Detailed explanation-5: -Snow in Lebanon’s two mountain ranges, Jebel Liban and Jabal ash Sharqi in March 2011.