Thermo-mechanical model of the Dead Sea Transform

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 78-95

  Sobolev, S V ^a,b   Petrunin, A ^a,b   Garfunkel, Z ^c   Babeyko, A Y ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea transform; Lithospheric geodynamics; Thermo mechanical model; Transform fault

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC GEODYNAMICS; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL; TRANSFORM FAULT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; THERMOMECHANICS; TRANSFORM FAULT; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 26944448568     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.058     Document Type: Article

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