Seismic study of pull-apart-induced sedimentation and deformation in the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Elat)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 396, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 59-79

  Ehrhardt, A ^a,c   Hubscher C ^a   Ben Avraham, Z ^b   Gajewski, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bathymetric data; Dead Sea transform; MCS data; Pull apart

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PULL APART BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONOPHYSICS; TERTIARY;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; WORLD;

EID: 12144273921     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.10.011     Document Type: Article

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