Late Pleistocene extension and strike-slip in the Dead Sea Basin

Geological Magazine

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 565-572

  Bartov, Yuval ^a   Sagy, Amir ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Late Pleistocene; Pull apart basins; Strike slip faults

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

DEAD SEA; DEAD SEA BASINS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NORMAL FAULTS; PULL-APART; SMALL SCALE; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

FAULT SLIPS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 6344261991     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680400963X     Document Type: Article

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