Evolution of the Dead Sea sinkholes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 401, Issue , 2006, Pages 241-253

  Abelson, Meir ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^a   Crouvi, Onn ^a   Baer, Gidon ^a   Wachs, Daniel ^a   Bein, Amos ^a   Shtivelman, Vladimir ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Buried faults; Collapse sinkholes; Dead sea; Groundwater; Halite dissolution; Land subsidence

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; AQUIFERS; CHLORIDE MINERALS; COMPACTION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SALINE WATER; SEA LEVEL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBSIDENCE;

BURIED FAULTS; COLLAPSE SINKHOLES; DEAD SEA; DIFFERENTIAL COMPACTION; LAND SUBSIDENCE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; UNDERGROUND CAVITIES;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

COAST; DISSOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GROUNDWATER; HALITE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE; SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE; WATER;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 34547428021     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2401(16)     Document Type: Article

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