Subsidence and sinkholes along the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea: Contribution of gravimetry and radar differential interferometry;Subsidence et effondrements le long du littoral jordanien de la mer Morte : Apports de la gravimétrie et de l'interférométrie radar différentielle

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 335, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 869-879

  Closson, Damien ^a,b   Abou Karaki, Najib ^c   Jad Hussein, Musa ^d   Al Fugha, Hassan ^c   Ozer, André ^b   Mubarak, Abdullah ^c  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^d YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Gravimetry; Interferometry; Sinkholes; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; GRAVIMETRY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE;

DEAD SEA; DEAD SEA COAST; JORDAN;

EID: 0242275127     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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