Holocene earthquakes inferred from a fan-delta sequence in the Dead Sea graben

Quaternary Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 34-48

  Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Kadan, Galit ^b   Eyal, Yehuda ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Earthquakes; Fan delta; Holocene; Israel; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAN DELTA; GRABEN; HOLOCENE;

ISRAEL; NAHAL DARGA;

EID: 0034056169     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2096     Document Type: Article

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