Shallow architecture of the Wadi Araba fault (Dead Sea Transform) from high-resolution seismic investigations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 432, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 37-50

  Haberland, Ch ^a   Maercklin, N ^b   Kesten, D ^b   Ryberg, T ^b   Janssen, Ch ^b   Agnon, A ^c   Weber, M ^a,b   Schulze, A ^b   Qabbani, I ^d   El Kelani, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

^e AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Dead Sea Transform; Reflection seismics; Shear zone; Strike slip fault; Tomography

Indexed keywords

FAULT; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WADI ARABA;

EID: 33846804060     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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