Stress field fluctuations along the Dead Sea rift since the middle Miocene

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 157-170

  Eyal, Yehuda ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; RIFTING; STRESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSFORM FAULT;

MIDDLE EAST, DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 0029756252     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC02619     Document Type: Article

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