The use of acoustic imaging to reveal fossil fluvial systems-a case study from the southwestern Sea of Galilee

Geomorphology

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 58-66

  Reshef, Moshe ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a   Tibor, Gideon ^b   Marco, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alluvial systems; Granulometry; Sea of Galilee; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BATHYMETRY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULOMETRY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 33751253445     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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