High-resolution stratigraphy reveals repeated earthquake faulting in the Masada Fault Zone, Dead Sea Transform

Tectonophysics

Volumn 408, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 101-112

  Marco, Shmuel ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea Fault; Earthquakes; Paleoseismology; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FAULTING; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; TRANSFORM FAULT;

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

EID: 28044454316     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.05.036     Document Type: Article

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