Archaeology, history, and geology of the A.D. 749 earthquake, Dead Sea transform

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 665-668

  Marco, Shmuel ^a   Hartal, Moshe ^b   Hazan, Nissim ^c   Lev, Lilach ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archaeoseismology; Dead Sea fault; Earthquakes; Paleoseismology

Indexed keywords

FAULT RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKES; EXCAVATION; FLOODS; SEISMOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOSEISMICITY; TRANSFORM FAULT;

DEAD SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0141680188     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19516.1     Document Type: Article

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