Mapping shallow faults at the Evrona playa site using high-resolution reflection method

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1257-1264

  Shtivelman, Vladimir ^a   Frieslander, Uri ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Amit, Rivka ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MAPPING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; REFLECTION METHODS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SPECIAL PROCESSING; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; PALEOSEISMICITY;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

FAULT; PLAYA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032124689     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444427     Document Type: Article

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