Systematic analyses of the large-scale topography and structure across the Dead Sea Rift

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 409-424

  Wdowinski, Shimon ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL RIFT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY;

MIDDLE EAST, DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 0031436891     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC00814     Document Type: Article

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