Displacement history of a limestone normal fault scarp, northern Israel, from cosmogenic 36Cl

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B3, 2001, Pages 4247-4264

  Mitchell, Sara Gran ^a,b   Matmon, Ari ^a,c   Bierman, Paul R ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^c   Caffee, Marc ^d   Rizzo, Donna ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SCARP; LIMESTONE; NEOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ISRAEL; ZURIM ESCARPMENT;

EID: 0034963180     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900373     Document Type: Article

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