Timing of earthquake ruptures at the Al Harif Roman aqueduct (Dead Sea fault, Syria) from archaeoseismology and paleoseismology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 471, Issue , 2010, Pages 243-267

  Sbeinati, Mohamed Reda ^a,b   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^b   Suleyman, Ghada ^c   Gomez, Francisco ^d   Grootes, Pieter ^e   Nadeau, Marie Josée ^e   Najjar, Haithem Al ^a   Al Ghazzi, Riad ^f,g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c General Directorate of Antiquities and Museum in Syria   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f HIGHER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^g SYRIAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EXCAVATION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; TIMING CIRCUITS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS; COMBINED ANALYSIS; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY UNITS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 78651068530     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2471(20)     Document Type: Article

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