The style of transverse faulting in the Dead Sea basin from seismic reflection data: The Amazyahu fault

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 129-139

  Ginzburg, Avihu ^a   Reshef, Moshe ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a   Schattner, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; FAULTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL FAULT; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 36549007432     PISSN: 00212164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJES_55_3_129     Document Type: Article

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