The shallow velocity structure across the Dead Sea Transform fault, Arava Valley, from seismic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Ryberg, Trond ^a   Weber, M H ^a,d   Garfunkel, Zvi ^b   Bartov, Y ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARAVA VALLEY; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35348860743     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004563     Document Type: Article

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