The Cover Basalt Formation, its age and its regional and tectonic setting: Implications from K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 55-71

  Heimann, Ariel ^a   Steinitz, Gideon ^a   Mor, Doron ^a,b   Shaliv, Gaby ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b En Kerem G/54 ^*

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