The structure, isostasy and gravity field of the Levant continental margin and the southeast Mediterranean area

Tectonophysics

Volumn 425, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 137-157

  Segev, Amit ^a   Rybakov, Michael ^b   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Hofstetter, Avraham ^b   Tibor, Gidon ^c   Goldshmidt, Vladimir ^b   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 D model; Gravity; Isostasy; Levant; Mediterranean; Middle East; Nile cone

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GRAVITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; EGYPT; EURASIA; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; NILE; NORTH AFRICA; SINAI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 33748858319     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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