Salt karst and tectonics: Sinkholes development along tension cracks between parallel strike-slip faults, Dead Sea, Jordan

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1408-1421

  Closson, Damien ^a   Karaki, Najib Abou ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dead sea; Jordan; Salt karst; Sinkholes; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEAD SEA; DECISION MAKERS; EAST COAST; EMPTY SPACE; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT PLANES; FOCAL MECHANISM; GROUND COLLAPSE; JORDAN; LAKE LEVELS; LINEAR SEGMENTS; LOCAL SCALE; SINKHOLES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL SETTING; TENSION CRACKS; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ALIGNMENT; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

CHLORIDE MINERALS;

CRACK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EN ECHELON STRUCTURE; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; KARST; SINKHOLE; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TENSION;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 69749098349     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1829     Document Type: Article

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