Kinematic modelling of large-scale structural asymmetry across the Dead Sea Rift

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 187-201

  Wdowinski, S ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Dead sea rift; Kinematic modelling; Kinematic topography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; KINEMATIC MODELLING; RIFT; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; JORDAN;

EID: 0030390362     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00238-7     Document Type: Article

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