Late Pleistocene and Holocen slip rate of the Northern Wade Araba fault, Dead Sea Transform, Jordan

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 449-474

  Niemi, Tina M ^a   Zhang, Hongwei ^a   Atallah, Mohammad ^b   Harrison, J Bruce J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Dead Sea transform; Earthquake recurrence; Holocene; Jordan; Late Pleistovece; Slip rate; Wadi Araba fault

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT SLIP; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

JORDAN;

EID: 0034810590     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011487912054     Document Type: Article

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