The levant slumps and the Phoenician structures: Collapse features along the continental margin of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-307

  Mart, Yossi ^a,b   Ryan, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapse of continental margin; Collapse structures; Levant margin; Mediterranean geology; Messinian evaporites; Salt dissolution; Salt flow; Shallow faults

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURES; SALT FLOW; SHALLOW FAULTS; SLOPE-NORMAL SLUMPS;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHELF BREAK;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 38849180069     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-007-9032-7     Document Type: Article

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