Middle-Late Eocene structure of the southern Levant continental margin - Tectonic motion versus global sea-level change

Tectonophysics

Volumn 499, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 165-177

  Segev, Amit ^a   Schattner, Uri ^b   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 D crustal structure; Afro Arabian plate; Eastern Mediterranean; Isostasy; Levant continental margin; Paleogene greenhouse episode

Indexed keywords

AFRO-ARABIAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ISOSTASY; PALEOGENE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; GEODESY; GREENHOUSES; HYDROCARBONS; LITHOLOGY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICAN PLATE; ARABIAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; ISOSTASY; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OUTCROP; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

DEAD SEA RIFT; ISRAEL; JORDAN; LEBANON; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 79952009003     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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