Large earthquakes kill coral reefs at the north-west Gulf af Aqaba

Terra Nova

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 133-138

  Shaked, Y ^a   Agnon, A ^a   Lazar, B ^a   Marco, S ^b   Avner, U ^c   Stein, M ^a,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ARAVA INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Israel)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CORAL REEF; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSIDENCE;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 2642523646     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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