现代红海岩石圈构造概念的根据,是在软流圈物质对流运动水平分量作用下阿拉伯板块和非洲板块相对拉开运动。在全球裂谷系中,红海被认为是印度洋和东非裂谷系的延长部分。虽然形成大洋和大陆裂谷作用过程的物理现象基本类同,但在某种情况下,这两种裂谷带的岩石圈构造具有非常重要的独立的特征。如果在大洋区,裂谷带主要位于沿轴部被深水谷盆地切割的大洋中脊内, The concept of the modern Red Sea lithosphere tectonics is based on the relative pull-out movement of the Arabian and African plates under the horizontal component of the convective mass flow in the asthenosphere. In the global Rift System, the Red Sea is considered an extension of the Indian Ocean and the East African Rift System. Although the physical phenomena forming the ocean and continental rifting process are basically similar, in some cases, the lithospheric structures of these two rift zones have very important and independent characteristics. If in the oceanic region, the rift zone is mainly located within the mid-ocean ridge cut along the shaft by the deep-water valleys,