Late quaternary faulting and subsidence in the central Dead Sea basin

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-31

  Bartov, Yuval ^a,b   Agnon, Amotz ^b   Enzel, Yehuda ^b   Stein, Mordechai ^c  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; PULL APART BASIN; SALT DOME; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JORDAN; KARAK; LISAN PENINSULA; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT SEDOM; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 35448966009     PISSN: 00212164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/k74u-0772-1642-6282     Document Type: Article

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