Salt dissolution and sinkhole formation along the Dead Sea shore

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Shalev, Eyal ^a   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; PERMEABILITY; REACTION RATE; SALT; SINKHOLE; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33646365605     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004038     Document Type: Article

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