Hierarchic three-dimensional structure and slip partitioning in the western Dead Sea pull-apart

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Sagy, Amir ^a   Reches, Ze'ev ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Faults; Joints; Pull apart; Slip partitioning; Three dimensional; Zigzag

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; PULL APART BASIN; RIFT ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0038009784     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001323     Document Type: Article

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