Late Cenozoic uplift along the northern Dead Sea transform in Lebanon and Syria

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 913-931

  Gomez, Francisco ^a   Khawlie, Mohamad ^b   Tabet, Charles ^b   Nasser Darkal, Abdul ^c   Khair, Kamal ^d   Barazangi, Muawia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

^c DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental transform; Dead Sea fault; DEM; InSAR; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; DEAD SEA FAULT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); NEOTECTONICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (INSAR);

GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; FAULT; GEODYNAMICS; UPLIFT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 30744434430     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.10.029     Document Type: Article

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