Seismic imaging of deep low-velocity zone beneath the Dead Sea basin and transform fault: Implications for strain localization and crustal rigidity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  ten Brink, Uri S ^a   Al Zoubi, Abdallah S ^b   Flores, Claudia H ^c   Rotstein, Yair ^c,d   Qabbani, Isam ^e   Harder, Steve H ^f   Keller, G Randy ^f,g  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d US Israel Binational Science Foundation   (Israel)

^e Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIGIDITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

ISOSTATIC COMPENSATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC ACTIVITY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

IMAGING METHOD; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RIGIDITY; SEISMIC METHOD; STRAIN; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34548082252     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027890     Document Type: Article

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