Collapse and subsidence associated with salt karstification along the Dead Sea

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-130

  Frumkin, Amos ^a   Raz, Eli ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Israeli Geological Survey   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE; DISSOLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KARSTIFICATION; SALT DOME; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL;

EID: 0035720659     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175830     Document Type: Article

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