Recent faulting in the southern Arava, Dead Sea Transform: Evidence from single grain luminescence dating

Quaternary International

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 34-44

  Porat, Naomi ^a   Duller, Geoff A T ^b   Amit, Rivka ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; ARID REGION; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRABEN; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARAVA VALLEY; ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 64249094261     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.039     Document Type: Article

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