Evolving deformation along a transform plate boundary: Example from the Dead Sea Fault in northern Israel

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Weinberger, Ram ^a   Gross, Michael R ^b   Sneh, Amihai ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; ARABIAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLIOCENE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNCLINE; TERTIARY; TRANSFORM FAULT; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ISRAEL; LEBANON;

EID: 76149116878     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002316     Document Type: Article

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