Collapse-sinkholes and radar interferometry reveal neotectonics concealed within the Dead Sea basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Abelson, Meir ^a   Baer, Gidon ^a   Shtivelman, Vladimir ^b   Wachs, Daniel ^a   Raz, Eli ^c   Crouvi, Onn ^a   Kurzon, Ittai ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; TECTONICS;

COLLAPSE-SINKHOLES;

GEOPHYSICS;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PULL APART BASIN; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0042283020     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017103     Document Type: Article

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