Effects of Mesozoic magmatism on composition, structure, and metallic mineralization in the Ramon area (southern Israel): Magnetometric and gravimetric evidence

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-112

  Segev, Amit ^a   Goldshmidt, Vladimir ^b   Itamar, Aryeh ^a   Rybakov, Michael ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b The Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics Israel   (Israel)

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