Relief inversion in the Avrona plays as evidence of large-magnitude historical earthquakes, southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea Rift

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-91

  Amit, Rivka ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Porat, Naomi ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Dead Sea Rift; Earthquakes; Holocene faulting; Israel; Neotectonics; Playa

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EARTHQUAKE; HOLOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLAYA; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARAVA VALLEY; ISRAEL;

EID: 0032754914     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2050     Document Type: Article

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