Morphometric and geomorphic approaches for assessment of tectonic activity, Dead Sea Rift (Israel)

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-104

  Shtober Zisu, Nurit ^a,b   Greenbaum, Noam ^a   Inbar, Moshe ^a   Flexer, Akiva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea rift; Hula valley; Marginal faults; Morphometric analysis; Mountain front; Slope channels

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; ESCARPMENT; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRABEN; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PIEDMONT; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; HULA VALLEY; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 53549119927     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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