Soft sediment deformation by Kelvin Helmholtz Instability: A case from Dead Sea earthquakes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 497-504

  Heifetz, Eyal ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^b   Marco, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea basin; Kelvin Helmholtz Instability; Paleo earthquake intensity; Soft sediment deformation

Indexed keywords

GROUND ACCELERATION; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY (KHI); SHEAR INSTABILITY;

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKES; STABILITY;

SEDIMENTS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEDIMENT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 22144472201     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.04.019     Document Type: Article

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