New age constraints on the evolution of the Mt Carmel structure and its implications on a Late Miocene extensional phase of the levant continental margin

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-216

  Steinberg, Josh ^a,b   Gvirtzman, Zohar ^b   Folkman, Yehoshua ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FAULT; MIOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

DEAD SEA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MOUNT CARMEL;

EID: 74849122658     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-089     Document Type: Article

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