Retreating late tertiary shorelines in Israel: Implications for the exposure of north Arabia and levant during Neotethys closure

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-109

  Gvirtzman, Z ^a   Steinberg, J ^a   Bar, O ^a   Buchbinder, B ^a   Zilberman, E ^a   Siman Tov, R ^a   Calvo, R ^a   Grossowicz, L ^a   Almogi Labin, A ^a   Rosensaft, M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; EARLY MIOCENE; EXPOSURE HISTORY; GRADUAL CHANGES; MEDITERRANEAN COASTS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MORPHOSTRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SHORELINE CHANGE; TERTIARY; TETHYS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UPLIFT;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 79954579544     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L124.1     Document Type: Article

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