Estimating the ages of fault scarps in the Arava, Israel

Tectonophysics

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 305-317

  Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Amit, Rivka ^b   Porat, Naomi ^b   Zilberman, Ezra ^b   Harrison, Bruce J ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SCARP; MORPHOLOGIC AGE; QUATERNARY;

ISRAEL, ARAVA VALLEY;

EID: 0029769191     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00072-0     Document Type: Article

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