Form and growth of an embryonic continental rift: InSAR observations and modelling of the 2009 western Arabia rifting episode

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-167

  Baer, Gidon ^a   Hamiel, Yariv ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental tectonics: extensional; Intraplate processes; Radar interferometry; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEODETIC DATUM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MAGMATISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HARRAT LUNAYYIR; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77954651226     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04627.x     Document Type: Article

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