Late Pleistocene to Holocene tectonic activity along the Nesher fault, Mount Carmel, Israel

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Greenbaum, Noam ^b   Nahmias, Yoav ^a   Porat, Naomi ^a   Ashqar, Lana ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CLAY; DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT; HOLOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC PHENOMENA; TECTONICS;

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

EID: 66049092318     PISSN: 00212164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJES.57.2.87     Document Type: Article

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