The structure of the Dead Sea basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 155-176

  Garfunkel, Zvi ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Pull apart; Transform

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; FAULT; PULL APART BASIN; RIFT; TRANSFORM FAULT;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; JORDAN;

EID: 0030389931     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00188-6     Document Type: Article

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