Deep "drop down" basin in the southern Dead Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 254-263

  Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

basin formation; Dead Sea fault; lithospheric delamination; rifting; transform faults

Indexed keywords

BASIN FORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY FILL; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CATCHMENTS; DELAMINATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; GRABEN; LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33750516319     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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