Birth and decay of an intracontinental magmatic swell: early Cretaceous tectonics of southern Israel

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 441-457

  Gvirtzman, Zohar ^a,c   Garfunkel, Zvi ^a   Gvirtzman, Gedaliahu ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SWELL; CRETACEOUS; MAGMATIC SWELL;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0031754079     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC00235     Document Type: Article

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