Gravity field over the Sea of Galilee: Evidence for a composite basin along a transform fault

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 533-544

  Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a   Ten Brink, Uri ^b   Bell, Robin ^c   Reznikov, Margaret ^a,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d The Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; COMPOSITE BASIN; GRAVITY DATA; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ISRAEL, SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 0029730091     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb03043     Document Type: Article

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