A 48-kyr-long slip rate history for the Jordan Valley segment of the Dead Sea Fault

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 394-406

  Ferry, Matthieu ^a   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^a   Karaki, Najib Abou ^b   Al Taj, Masdouq ^c   Amoush, Hani ^b   Al Dhaisat, Salman ^d   Barjous, Majdi ^e  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^d AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^e Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

Author keywords

active tectonics; Dead Sea fault; fault slip rate; geomorphology; paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP RATE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORMATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT SLIP; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY; PALEOCLIMATE; SLIP RATE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; JORDAN VALLEY; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34447507739     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.049     Document Type: Article

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