Reevaluating the tectonic uplift of western Mount Carmel, Israel, since the middle Pleistocene

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-245

  Zviely, Dov ^a   Galili, Ehud ^b   Ronen, Avraham ^a   Salamon, Amos ^c   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carmel coastal plain; Carmel fault; Eastern Mediterranean; MIS 5e; Sea level changes; Tabun Cave

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT CARMEL;

EID: 60349093857     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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